Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tavern, and he told me how tough things were these days along Skid Row. "It's the inflation," he said, "a guy can't make a living on the bum any more. You gotta have 15 to 20 bucks a week. Used to be you could walk into the Shamrock and lay down 11? and the barkeep would pour you two stiff shots of rye. Now it costs you 20? a single shot at Frank's or Jack's or the House of All Nations...
...goes to his office, where his first chore is to arrange the flowers on his desk. He works until 1 p.m. With a light lunch he has port, usually diluted, and never more than three-quarters of a glass. After lunch he rests and takes an hour's walk, sometimes with his adopted daughters, sometimes alone and unguarded on Lisbon's streets. At 4 he returns to his office and works till 7:30. All important decisions of all Ministries are made by Salazar...
Some 14,000 members of the C.I.O. United Steelworkers Union started to walk out of Canada's three basic steel plants (Dominion Steel & Coal at Sydney, N.S., Steel Co. of Canada at Hamilton, Ont., Algoma Steel at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) which supply about 80% of Canada's steel. Although the number of steelworkers was comparatively small, if they stayed out long enough they would ultimately force a serious coke shortage and the laying off of 423,000 other Canadians dependent on steel for their jobs. (Some 36,000 workers were still on strike in rubber, electric works...
Jeers to Cheers. When ex-Marine Ted Williams showed up at spring-training camp last February, somebody dared him to walk up to the plate in his street clothes like a stranger and demand a chance at bat. Said he with great dignity: "No. They'd say I was screwy again." His teammates found themselves liking him for the first time. Either it was the Marines or his bride...
Bowdoin was the first to push a score across the home platter when two of the Polar Bears romped across in the top half of the second. Finnegan opened the inning by drawing a walk from Moravec. Charlie Senseney booted Towne's grounder to second and then threw wide to first, putting men on second and third. After Goldman popped up to Moravec, Vince fanned Pierce. Then the Bowdoin hurler, "Skippy" Babcock, rapped out a sharp single scoring Finnegan and Towne. DeKalb ended the inning with a fly to Carlson in the sun-field...