Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Happy wheedled $39 million in new taxes out of the legislature, extended state income taxes to take in wage earners making as little as $14 a week, and, perhaps most injudiciously, boosted the state levy on whisky. Rumbled one Kentucky politician: "Not many people would walk out in the yard to vote for anybody, but they'd swim the Ohio to vote against somebody. This time, they came out to get Happy...
...other Crimson contestant reached the finals. Norman Buck qualified for the semi-finals in the 100-yard dash, but went no further...
...with the Communist threat." The outraged Air Force lashed back in a paper holding that land forces will play only minor roles in future wars. To make the circle complete, the Air Force dismissed Navy claims that its supercarriers can carry atomic warfare into "the enemy's front yard" by describing the big ships as among the most vulnerable of all A-bomb targets...
What killed the Big Show? Circusmen blame skyrocketing costs. Ringling last year paid a $500,000 railroad bill v. $150,000 in 1940. Downtown circus lots big enough for the 26,000-yard oval of the Big Top are either unavailable or exorbitantly expensive in most U.S. cities. For a business whose methods have changed little since its cheap-labor heyday, the cost of moving from town to town has become prohibitive. On top of that, today's children, surfeited with TV tinsel, no longer quicken to the real-life roar of lions, the aerialist's heart-stopping...
...standards for an "A" rank are fairly high, requiring, for instance, a 7 foot, 10 inch standing broad jump, and a 50 yard swim under 35 seconds...