Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gangster." Author Kerouac is a cut-rate Thomas Wolfe, and he writes in vivid if not always lucid gushes and rushes, a style he attributes to the rambling reminiscences of his French Canadian mother. Sample, describing movies : "O grayscreen gangster cocktail rainy-day roaring gunshot spectral immortality B movie tire pile black-in-the-mist Wild-america but it's a crazy world!" In one sense, Author Kerouac's dithyrambic denial of mind may be salutary in an age that overrationalizes and overanalyzes existence. But if the concept of the beat generation can be reduced to its philosophical...
...Eagles Tire...
With the beginning of the third period, B.C. began to tire and the play almost entirely was centered in its zone. O'Malley made it 5-1 for the varsity at 1:15 of the final stanza as he converted on passes from Cleary and Guttu. The Eagle forwards then let up on their back-checking and just tried to contain the varsity at the B.C. blue line. Bill Collins scored at 4:39 when he managed to get clear in front of the cage and scored on a perfect pass from Bud Higgenbottom...
...growing air fleets. They fear that stockholders might think the planes are used only for junkets and fishing trips. But few companies will buy, and fewer plane makers will sell, a plane unless it adds to the customer's profit. Eastman Kodak, U.S. Steel, International Business Machines, Firestone Tire & Rubber, Socony Mobil Oil Co and Texas Co. all have fleets ranging from puddle jumpers to four-engined DC-6Bs and turbo prop Vickers Viscounts. They find them worth their cost many times over in shuttling men and equipment around their widely diversified operations...
...Army kept working on Jupiter, with Medaris and Von Braun shuttling between Huntsville and Washington, begging and borrowing Army research and development funds to keep going. Said Medaris: "We bend every effort we can to make up for whatever handicaps or checks have been thrown into it, and we tire people and wear them out, but we get it done." With the job of testing a nose cone for Jupiter, the Huntsville team kept going on Jupiter-C. Actually Jupiter-C-a bundle of rockets beefing up the Army's Redstone-was hardly kin to the sophisticated, sleek Jupiter...