Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only to find his front yard engulfed by a flood. Allowed to move freely through the countryside once more, huge piles of export freight and armies of overseas-bound passengers found themselves stopped short at Britain's shores by a 25-day-old dockers' strike and a wildcat walkout of seamen manning the Commonwealth's huge passenger vessels...
...Hampshire's speed gave the Crimson most of its difficulties, as the Wildcat midfielders continually broke around the varsity defense for extra man plays. In such situations, both midfielders and attackers combined to outnumber the goalie and his defense...
...broken ribs during the mauling, but he recovered quickly enough. He was used to beatings. It was a long series of beatings that had put Adolph ("Ad") Wolgast into the psychopathic ward of California's Stockton State Hospital in the first place. For eleven years the "Michigan Wildcat" had held his own in the savage battles of the pre-World War I prize ring. He had slugged and butted and cuffed his way to the lightweight championship of the world, and he had his brains unhinged in the process. A small-town scrapper from Cadillac, Mich., Ad Wolgast took...
...Sunday Dane and Thomas placed 19th and 21st, respectively, out of 40 competitors in the Eastern Downhill Championships on the Wildcat trail. The two raced over the near perfect condition of light fluff on top of hard packed powder...
With new wage negotiations only two months off, the war of nerves is already underway. Wildcat strikes and work stoppages plague the auto industry. A rumor, apparently planted by the union, that both G.M. and Ford would settle for some sort of guaranteed annual wage before negotiations start, was spread by such scattered sources as Columnist Drew Pearson, Gossipist Leonard Lyons and the newsletter of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank. The rumor was vehemently denied by management, and G.M.'s Labor Negotiator Harry Anderson even hustled to Manhattan to straighten out the bank...