Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barring an Act of God (or a complete defensive collapse) the varsity lacrosse team will end its one-game losing streak today. Coach Bruce Munro's men play New Hampshire at Durham, and should be able to top a Wildcat team that has lost to Tufts and M.I.T. The Crimson whipped both of these squads easily...
Cubans hardly needed to be told. Political foes rushed to make deals with the new boss. Gangsters stopped shooting at each other. Employers reported an abrupt end to such familiar nuisances as wildcat strikes and absenteeism. Cubans remembered Batista. In the past, he had used castor oil, midnight arrests or gunplay; his soldiers had ruthlessly put down abortive rebellions. He could afford to be economical with the weapon of terror. "It is my destiny to make bloodless revolutions," he bragged-and added a significant qualification: "The only blood spilled will be that of those who oppose...
...month earlier, Philadelphia and New York City were engrossed in the capture of Willie Sutton, while Seattle was deep in a controversy over fluoridation of its water supply. San Franciscans talked of little but the wildcat transit strike and the resulting traffic snarls, but a little farther south, in Los Angeles, Topic A was Governor Warren's entry into the Wisconsin primary race. In Charleston, S.C., people were indignant about judges who were resigning in order to be renamed to their posts at higher pay, while Indianapolis was swept up in the Hoosier State's annual excitement over...
...Mujal on the job "as long as the workers want to keep him." Strikes and new wage claims, he added, would not be tolerated. Even before this-in fact, from the day Batista took over-sugar mill-owners, manufacturers and hotelkeepers reported a sudden end to such nuisances as wildcat strikes and "disrespect...
...everyone. "But of course the most fun is selling the pictures." Houstonians took the hint. By the time Bemelmans pulled out of town in a new cowboy hat, at least seven of the canvases had been spoken for. One oilman's wife had offered him shares in a wildcat well (yet to be drilled) in exchange for a painting. "I'll swap oil for oil," bubbled Bemelmans...