Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driving off. In "The Morning of the Day They Did It," two U.S. military men on SPCA duty ("Space Platform for Checking Aggression") blow the earth to bits out of sheer boredom. "About Myself is a nightmare comedy of numbers set in an Orwellian bureaucracy. ("My left front tire is Number 48KE8846, my right front tire is Number 63T6895".) But if Humorist White jangles the nerves with predictable frequency, he remembers how to jiggle the funny bone too. His four-page "Across the Street and into the Grill," a parody of Hemingway, is a minor triumph of satirical humor...
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. last week reported that its sales for 1953 had pushed over the billion dollar level for the first time, thus making it the 31st U.S. company to pass the magic mark and become a member of the "Billion Dollar Club." Firestone's record: $1,029,000,000 worth of rubber goods and plastics sold ($64,000,000 better than 1952), for a net profit of $46,748,971, or $11.77 a share...
...varsity hockey team didn't need tire chains to get moving at Lynn's North Shore Sports Center Saturday night. The Crimson whipped Dartmouth, 4 to 0, and thereby established itself as a definite threat to retain its Beanpot tournament crown tonight and tomorrow...
Secluded Sunshine. At 93, Grandma still "makes a batch" of three or four pictures almost every week. She paints each day until she begins to tire: "Then I leave it to do something else; when my hand gets tired, it isn't so stiddy." Sometimes Grandma turns to television, "though it's gettin' to be monotonous," or more likely just chats with Winona. Grandma's hearing is perfect, and she says, "I love the gossip." Now & then she entertains her neighboring great-grandchildren who "come troopin' acrost the field, lookin' like Coxey...
...thinks the GOP will try to parlay its attacks on Truman into long range political cannon-fodder. "In tennis they say when you find an opponent with a wooden leg you force him from side to side, forward and back. You want to tire him. In politics you do much the same thing. The Democrats for twenty years thought they had a man with a wooden leg in Herbert Hoover. Now the Republicans have found their man with a wooden leg: Harry Truman...