Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still whipped by the chart (one lash for every foot above three climbed up a tree, two lashes for blotting a copybook). New York instituted night schools in 1847, children's classes in hygiene and sanitation in 1885, in sewing, cooking and manual training in 1887, lectures for workingmen...
...World War II has been that of the French worker-priests (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950)-young priests who take jobs and live as workers, saying Mass, hearing confessions and carrying on their pastoral functions in their spare time. The long-range aim of the movement: to reach anticlerical French workingmen who have been notoriously easy prey for Communism...
Rats & Dear Old Ladies. Many of the students felt that big-city Protestant churches were overdue for a change of attitude. "Fear of new groups seems to be the handicap to church expansion in some cases," said Paul Mehl, 25, of Union Theological Seminary. "Workingmen don't flock to support a church abounding with prejudices, traditions, and dear old ladies who call it 'their' church...
...railway station, he almost gave the show away when he called out in English, "All right, Hank, I've got the tickets," but he drew only glares from the crowd. A short distance from the Swiss frontier, they were challenged by a German sentry, but posed as Flemish workingmen and convinced him. That night, less than four days after leaving Colditz, Reid and his friend stopped under a lamppost in a Swiss village and shook hands. Even the British government thought it was a pretty good getaway. Reid's reward: the Military Cross...
...your March 31 story on the London motorbuses visiting the U.S. with their "cockney" drivers: I see that you have fallen for the pernicious idea that all London workingmen drop their aitches . . . Unfortunately you are not alone in this habit. Our own BBC always finds it necessary ... to put "local" and plebeian language in the mouths of policemen, bus and taxi drivers, artisans and the "working class" in general. If TIME was a genuine student of the London scene, it would be aware that "cockney" idiom is almost extinct. This stigma of an elementary education has been eradicated...