Word: weirds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boxing, but they had plenty of fight. And that's what draws the crowds. Last week 19,216 noisy fans crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to boo and applaud the Golden Gloves's national finals. The fans saw plenty of the wild haymakers and weird grimaces which made good action shots for the photographers at the ringside (see cut). A few connoisseurs went for a special reason: to take a look at Negro Bob Foxworth, 22, touted as the coming Joe Louis...
With a faint, abstracted smile, like a man trying to remember his first girl, Liang plucked out clear notes with the fingernails of his right hand; made them whine and sob with his left. Those who gave up listening for familiar chords (and trying to ignore the weird half tones which almost invariably followed) were rewarded with a dreamy sense of Confucius' "peace among the people...
...industry, OPA plans to lower price ceilings for new manufacturers of such items as toasters, lawn mowers and fountain pens below those of established makers. Now, new manufacturers often have ceilings outrageously out of line. In some cases, they were set 150% above those of established companies, in the weird belief that this would spur production. Instead, old manufacturers simply stopped unprofitable production, and the shortages became worse than they had ever been before...
Congressmen took another look at an old, controversial question-should the rights of labor be allowed to transcend the rights of the public to electricity, fuel, transportation, telephones? There was nothing hypothetical about the problem-the U.S. had just seen what weird things happen when a big city is denied even one essential service for a short time...
...huge U.S. Army-built air base near Churchill, on the western shore of Hudson Bay, a whistle shrilled through the ice-cold, early morning air. Before eleven weird, tanklike "snowmobiles," a group of men snapped to attention. They listened as Brigadier R. O. G. Morton, Canadian Army commander of the military district, told them: "The ground you will cover is historic. Brave men have given their lives there for the advancement of the race." He finished with a command: "To post!" The Canadian Army's "Operation Musk-Ox" was under...