Word: toe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fallen in." In 60 days, $1.5 billion in contracts were canceled, more that 38,000 workers laid off. Bill Allen remembered the grim joke North American's James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger once told him on the boom-or-bust character of the industry: "If I stub my toe and fall while running to lay off people, we're liable to lose our shirts." Strikes & Stratocruisers. Allen tightened his lips, set out to see what he could salvage. He hardly looked like the man for the job, acted even less like it. He appeared shy and unsure, talked...
...really began minutes before, when Hungarian Captain Ferenc Puskas hit Brazil's Joao Pinheiro in the face with a pop bottle. However it started, the fight swirled through the locker rooms, and players, spectators and officials got in licks with bottles, furniture, glass from shattered partitions and the toe-ends of good solid soccer boots. Swiss gendarmes surrounded the locker room, but for a while all they could do was keep out reinforcements. If it was any consolation, Brazil won the brawl, two casualties...
Where previous Congresses for 40 years have merely wetted a toe and walked away, the House of Representatives last week took a momentous plunge: it approved the St. Lawrence Seaway project...
...tenth, flailing away with four of the fastest fists in the business, the two fighters stood toe-to-toe and slugged it out while the crowd howled. Gavilan unleashed one of his famed bolo punches, a freewheeling uppercut that starts with a backswing. Olson shrugged it off, kept right on boring...
Young, who has long argued that the road's earnings are large enough to give the common stockholders a share in the road, was mum last week on the new plan. But it was safe to bet that his Alleghany Corp. would oppose it. "Less than a toe hold" is hardly enough for the man who wants to sit at the throttle of Mopac...