Word: longshoreman
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...largest was found by Brigham Young University's James A. Jensen,* a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lanky scientist known as "Dinosaur Jim," who worked as a taxidermist, welder, carpenter and longshoreman before turning to paleontology. Last year, on a tip from two amateur rock collectors, Jensen began exploring what was once a prehistoric riverbed near the little farming and lumber town of Delta in western Colorado. By spring he had unearthed a trove of bones that included the remnants of a large carnivorous dinosaur, three prehistoric turtles, parts of ancient crocodiles and small, chicken-sized flying reptiles...
...Francisco. A convict turned fighter, Machen seemed headed for the championship until Sweden's Ingemar Johansson kayoed him in the first round of a 1958 fight. After a bout with mental illness, he tried a comeback that soon fizzled, and later worked part time as a longshoreman...
...early-form charts on this election would have placed Basil Quirk, 48, an Irish Catholic longshoreman from South Boston, in the camp of Edmund Muskie, the Polish Catholic from Maine. Or perhaps Hubert Humphrey, who dotes on organized labor. Maybe even George Wallace, the sometime Horatio of the hardhats. Those charts have been proved wrong a number of times. Basil Quirk, boxing fan, father of five, proud owner of a three-decker in one of Boston's most solidly working-class areas, is a firm and enthusiastic-supporter of McGovern. Over a dinner of roast beef, baked potatoes, rolls...
...heart attack; in Los Angeles. The rough-hewn actor with the jutting jaw and the gravelly voice scored his first big Broadway success in The Philadelphia Story (1939). From his 1942 Oscar-winning performance as the drunken newspaper reporter in Johnny Eager to his portrayal of the longshoreman in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge (1955), to his role as the mad bomber in last year's Airport, Heflin managed to avoid the typecasting that plagues many actors...
...Director J. Edgar Hoover after reading an article in the National Observer. What particularly irked Hoover was the retelling of an anecdote from former Attorney General Francis Biddle's 1962 book In Brief Authority. It seems an FBI agent had gone to tap the telephone of Left-Wing Longshoreman Harry Bridges and dropped an incriminating FBI letterhead during his visit. Biddle and Hoover rushed to the office of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to explain. Tickled, F.D.R. supposedly slapped Hoover on the back and said, "My God, Edgar, that's the first time you've been caught with...