Word: contend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other members' willingness to take the oath. Under the strict interpretation of the NLRB's General Counsel Robert Denham, every top officer must sign or no affiliated union may come before the NLRB. (This week Dan Tobin signed the affidavit anyway, sent his lawyer to Washington to contend that the Teamsters should be allowed to use the NLRB...
...right now he had some nearer varmints to contend with-some visiting Australians, survivors of 22 nations which this year challenged for the Davis Cup. It would be the first cup "challenge round" to be decided in the U.S. since Australia took the cup home eight years ago. And next week, the 67th U.S. singles championship would get under way, with the best of the world's amateur stars trying their hardest to do the unlikely and dethrone King Jake...
...ostrich's out of a high stiff collar. He could retire tomorrow as baseball's Grand Old Man, but prefers to remain an active and highly controversial figure. Four-fifths of Philadelphia fans insist that he is the greatest manager in baseball; some of the remaining fifth contend that he is a penny-pinching old Scrooge who trades shamelessly on the incorrigible loyalty of Athletics fans. His detractors say that he profitably broke up his great teams of 1910-14 and 1929-32 because Philadelphia fans, with only the equally sad Phillies as an alternative, would turn...
Hard-boiled and well-fed economists might contend that the British were wrong to spend so much money on food and tobacco. But even with the dollar food purchases, the British diet had remained on the thin line that divides discomfort from malnutrition. If British workers had eaten less in the last year they probably would have produced less...
Some experts think that building an air-conditioned frame will be a sheer waste of effort. The trouble is really in the damp wall, they insist, and not in the air. They contend that the mural, which is painted directly on the plaster of the wall, must be peeled off somehow and pasted to a dry one. Rome's revered Art Critic Lionello Venturi, who refused to serve on the commission, has no hope that the commission will come around to the radical idea of peeling off the mural. Said he: "The painting is so sacred to them that...