Word: sparkplugs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distilling enough of the historical essence of U.S. freedom and civil liberties to give The Lightwood Tree a realistic urgency rare among Southern novels outside the field of the race problem. The explanation is easy: large, balding Berry Fleming is a successful political operator himself. He was the intellectual sparkplug of a daring and determined revolution in Augusta...
...Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 43, sparkplug catcher of Connie Mack's great Athletics of the late '20s and Lefty Grove's battery mate. His lifetime batting average: a hefty .320. After managing Detroit for 4½ seasons (and spoiling his health and cheery disposition), he forsook baseball in 1938, is now working for a rubber company in Montana. ¶ Carl ("Meal Ticket") Hubbell, 43, the great "clutch" pitcher (he always won in a pinch). Lean and emotionless, he seldom used more stuff than he needed to get his man, seldom tried for strike-out records...
...Labor government had every advantage on its side at the outset. English unions have been recognized as among the most mature in existence. The central organ of collective action, the Trade Union Congress, has good disciplinary control over member bodies, and is the sparkplug behind the present cabinet, which was so gravely threatened by the strike. With Britain fighting for her commercial life, there has been a strong prejudice against any form of work stoppage. To prevent grievances, pecuniary and spiritual, there exists a well defined system of mediation boards with broad powers, set up by the Attlee cabinet...
...sparkplug of Louisville's Committee on Institutions is a small, bespectacled, 58-year-old businessman named George W. Stoll. One Sunday in 1940, Methodist Stoll left church after an especially inspiring sermon. He overheard someone say: "I've heard a lot of sermons like that. They inspire you to do something for your fellow men, but they never tell you what to do or how to do it." Then & there, Oilman Stoll decided that he would put Christian idealism to work in civic life...
...Bill Dudley of the Pittsburgh Steelers had run around, under & over big 225-pounders. He was not fast, either, but with his jitterbug's change-of-pace, he became the National League's No. 1 ground-gainer (604 yards). He was also the team's sparkplug, did the kicking and passing, led the league in pass interceptions (10). Said he, retiring from pro football after ripping a cartilage in his knee: "I know my limitations . . . I'm not big enough to take such a beating...