Word: vise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today Bobby Thompson draws the right-field assignment and Jack Donelan returns to the mound, with Buster Connolly patrolling left. Ben Akillian maintains his vise-like grip on the center field position...
...hard-earned dollars for these backdated, repelling suits of armor, I'm sure the money-mad creators of fashion will once again create as we desire. I for one could not stand to see my lovely little wife turning blue as she gasped for air in a laced vise, nor would I enjoy the clank and clatter of new form-building pads as she tripped lightly by. Let the unshapely change their forms at will but I like my wife as is and prefer dresses that show...
...much theatre as music, and this performance will be sung in English. Unfortunately for Yale weekenders, this conflicts with the big game because of its 2:30 o'clock starting time, and as a result will probably interest only those who were caught in the H. A. A. ticket vise...
...vise which Harry Bridges had screwed on Hawaii brought the island face to face with the hard facts of modern U.S. industrial-labor power plays. Sharp-nosed Harry Bridges had already taken temporary command of the islands' economy. If he could win a closed union shop for the sugar workers and make it stick, it would be a long step toward organization of the islands' workers-and that would be a long step toward domination of its economic and political life...
...nation began paying its pound of flesh last week for the steel and coal strikes. All over the country, the vise-tight pinch on steel and other metals began to shut down plants or curtail industrial production. Though U.S. industry was still far from capacity, production was already bumping the materials ceiling...