Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slapped with "cease and desist" orders on their label violations. Nor had the committee proved by week's end that Adams had in fact done his friend any good in any of his Government troubles. Be that as it may, Goldfine understood how the Adams friendship let him wheel and deal. "He told me," testified Goldfine's latter-day enemy John Fox, publisher of the Boston Post, in court in April, "that as long as he had Sherman Adams in his pocket he could do it." An old hand at politics, Adams knew Washington well, and he would...
While Republicans bickered, new Democratic Big Wheel Pat Brown rolled merrily eastward for conferences with party hierarchy. He was received in Washington as a man who already had November under his belt. Said he, blinking through his half-rimmed spectacles: "I'm not used to anything like this." Then, remembering his role as the wave of the future, he added: "But I will...
...school athletic field is turned into a fair-ground with ferris wheel and Bingo for a week at the end of each summer when the active Alumni Association presents its annual Carnival. As soon as textbooks are distributed for the year, it is time for football Homecoming Week. Beginning with a parade and bonfire, the celebration winds up with the crowning of the homecoming queen and her court--invariably members of Sub-Deb or Jinx...
Catcalls & Combs. Even rock-'n'-roll fans, whose tolerance of their idols had previously seemed inexhaustible, had had enough. At his first appearance, they booed and catcalled for 20 minutes, while Lewis nervously ran a comb through his long hair. "Go home, baby snatcher!" they screamed. "Go wheel your wife in a pram!" After one more such appearance, Jerry's managers decided to call the tour off. "I did want to stay here long enough to get a wedding ring," whimpered Myra at the airport. Fumed Jerry: "I don't feel guilty about nuttin...
...both. His pit crew never kept him off the track more than 35 seconds at a stop. He drifted into curves and tore down the straightaways with the same swift talent that had won him the national driving championship three years in the last four. He fought the wheel with the husky skill that helped him last through the 1954 race after his shock absorbers and springs collapsed, and his whole body was bruised and bleeding from pounding of the bricks...