Word: winningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relied instead on dazzling skating and passing so precise that their offense looked like a giant-sized game of animated chess. Instead of whooping with triumph after a goal, they skated deadpan back up ice. But the touring Russian all-stars had one familiar sporting trait: they played to win...
...pilots did not win their demand to cut the maximum work month to 75 flying hours (it remains 85 hours). But American did agree to give them some flight credit for time away from home and at the airport but not actually in the air. For example, if a pilot is on duty for ten hours but socked in by weather, he will be credited with five hours' flight time...
...Kaiser, bankroll his ill-fated auto venture. Then, at a critical moment, Eaton backed out of a deal to underwrite $11.7 million worth of new Kaiser stock. (The court fight lasted four years; characteristically. Cy Eaton won.) One of his biggest deals: helping the late Robert R. Young win control of the New York Central Railroad in return for control of the profitable, coal-hauling Chesapeake & Ohio...
...win support from the 17,000 Aluminium shareholders. Portal promised a sizable dividend boost. In a final desperate gesture, Portal called in 14 leading old-line British banks, who claimed to control 2,000,000 of Aluminium's 9,000,000 shares, to help in buying more shares. The banks said they would pay $11.48 a share for one-half of each stockholder's holdings if he would keep the rest three months, i.e., until the fight was over. This only made stockholders madder, since it showed that the original price to Alcoa had been much...
...Cecil B. DeMille remake of a Cecil B. DeMille version (1938) of the life of Jean Lafitte, the corsair who became the terror of the Western seas in the early years of the 19th century, then turned patriot and won pardon for his men by helping Andy Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans. But somewhere along the production line, C.B., now 77, gave the reins into younger hands. The picture was actually made by Producer Henry Wilcoxon, a onetime star (The Crusades) and longtime assistant of the great man, and by Actor Anthony Quinn, DeMille...