Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Touch of Blackmail? After George's colleagues had crowded around him to shake his hand, it was the turn of another old man, Rhode Island's 88-year-old Democrat Theodore Francis Green, to add up some of the real reasons why the foreign-aid bill was in trouble...
...chalked odds on the bookie's tote boards if they failed to pay protection money. After holding onto their franchise in the face of attacks by some of the toughest tearaways in The Smoke, the Sabini gang at last gave way to the Black Brothers, who in turn were muscled out by Jack Spot. Born of Polish-Jewish parents in a Whitechapel tenement in 1912, Jack Spot (né Comer) was a shrewd operator with a taste for custom-made silk shirts, big black cigars and 40-guinea suits. It took a fat wad of track-protection money...
...borrowed two-door Pontiac sedan, were rolled up as he pounded around the circular ten-mile track, and the temperature inside the car rose to a stifling 120°. Jenkins gave no sign of needing a relief driver, but after 9½ hours, his nervous wife insisted that he turn the wheel over to their 36-year-old son Marvin. Ab jauntily downed two glasses of milk, was soon back at the wheel, in all drove for 16 of the 24 hours. Despite a broken patch of track which caused the car to swerve each time around and cost...
California's elaborate machinery for confirming a case of bubonic plague began to grind. The plague bacillus lives in fleas, which in turn infest Western ground rodents. When an epizootic occurs, the disease kills many of the rodents. In Lockwood Valley, disease detectives found the shriveled carcasses of rabbits and ground squirrels by the score. More significant, they found fleas on the ground because their animal hosts had died...
...Irish monkeys." New Hampshire and Vermont were "the varicose veins of New England," and New York was "a sewer, a cesspool, a garbage can . . . the hickest of all hick towns." Of U.S. Presidents, there was "no viler oaf" than Woodrow Wilson. "You know what I think of Hoover. Turn him upside down, and he looks the same." As for the Roosevelts, Teddy "had the manners of a saloon bouncer and the soul of a stuck pig, and FDR is the synthesis of all the liars, scoundrels, and cheapskates of mankind...