Word: tieing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Bridges knotted-a brown-and-yellow necktie around his matchstick neck one day and betook himself to San Francisco's federal court. "It's my homestretch tie," Harry explained. "It has never failed me in the homestretch...
...tie could not save Harry Bridges' neck this time. In the gloomy cavernous courtroom where he had lounged, smiled and listened studiously through 81 days of trial a jury of eight men and four women -after 31 hours of deliberation-decided that Bridges had been a Communist and had lied when he denied it at his naturalization proceedings in 1945. For abetting the deception by serving as Bridges' naturalization witnesses, two top lieutenants in the I.L.W.U.-Vice President J. R. Robertson and German-born Henry ("The Dutchman") Schmidt-were also convicted. This week Bridges was sentenced to five...
...days he was the flotilla's Captain Bligh. The pilot, 27-year-old Captain William Cherry, was in command, and Rick-enbacker's friend, Colonel Hans Christian Adamson, 52, was the ranking officer. But the old warbird-dressed in a grey felt hat, business suit, shirt, tie and high-laced shoes-gave orders...
...keeps his story moving without a hitch on three levels: 1) a more-or-less conventional love story; 2) a psychological and poetic mystery which employs gypsy magic and visitations from out of this world; 3) a treatise on God as the source of love, and love as the tie that can bind all humanity together and humanity in turn to God. It is typical of Williams that those of his characters who selfishly try to deny God are not cast out but saved...
Yale defeated the Crimson, 5 to 0, in the final game on Saturday. The match yesterday between the All-star teams from Bermuda and the United States ended in a scoreless tie...