Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said the witness: "I was sitting there on the ledge watching them. They laid their legs across two stones. Three men came down the line with hammers breaking their legs. They were using 2O-lb. hammers. I could hear the bones crack. They'd holler some, and turn aside, but they didn't holler too loud. The guard, he was a pretty good piece off, and he couldn't hear them. They asked me to join them, but I said...
...Canada. But in the prosperous postwar years, socialism's appeal faded, and the CCF vote fell off sharply. Six months ago a committee of CCF theorists was appointed to chart a new course. The committee's report, called a "Declaration of Principles," recommended a sharp right turn toward a mixed economy, which would "provide increased opportunities for private as well as public-owned industry...
...gazed from across the street at the big, abandoned mansion in Rutherford, N.J., the young facultyman from Columbia University fell to musing. "Wouldn't it be wonderful," said he, "to turn that place into a college?" Eventually, Peter Sammartino did just that, but the institution he founded was far from orthodox. Now known as Fairleigh Dickinson University, it is one man's aggressive but imaginative answer to the increasing demand for higher education...
...engaged, as one independent said recently, "in the biggest floating crap game in the world." They rely on long-term contracts and fixed rate scales for steady income; only by keeping some ships available for short-term charters can they take advantage of the sudden rises in rates that turn the big profits. When world oil consumption spurted a mere 10% in 1948, charter rates rose 250%. On the other hand, a prolonged fall in tanker rates can come close to wrecking an independent...
Almost as if the promoters could not quite count on their fighters, the show started long before the bout. Ringside sportswriters were asked to turn out in formal clothes, and many of them went along with the gag. The aisles were thick with red carpeting, as if Governor General Vincent Massey himself was about to grace some extraordinary state affair. But when the houselights darkened and spotlights shone on the home-team dugout, the only notable to appear was James J. Parker, proud in a blue silk robe trimmed with white. He marched to the ring, wary-eyed and handsome...