Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which to lay your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board, no place to put your elbow, a sort of island in a useless unfriendly void...
When Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp. served notice that it was ready to talk business, Murray delegated Joe Molony, a district director, to negotiate with them...
...going to New York," explained Molony, with a grin, "and I'll see the Colorado Fuel & Iron people. I'll say to them, 'We want the Bethlehem formula.' They'll say to me, 'What is the Bethlehem formula?' "Then I'll pound the table and I'll say, 'What the hell you trying to do-break the union...
...situation seemed to be made to order for Beck. Like most employers, Boeing was not at all averse to his guarantees of iron union discipline and labor peace. Beck licked his chops and prepared to dump Boeing's 15,000 employees into the kettleful of fruit canners, clerks and dry cleaners whose dues were already pouring into the teamsters' treasury...
Although Fraser had magnified the importance of the few incidents in Newfoundland, his article seemed likely to do more good than harm to U.S.-Canadian relations. For more than a year, Canadians have been working patiently and getting nowhere trying to iron out the problem with the U.S. State Department (and with U.S. Air Force brass who saw no reason for either generosity or haste). With the grievance aired in public, U.S. response might come a little faster...