Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Rafer Johnson has now made famous, I am overjoyed at TIME'S recognition of this remarkably fine young man. However, lest one minor incident recounted in TIME'S story leave an unfair impression of the people of Kingsburg, may I testify that any drawing of a color line is most uncharacteristic of Kingsburgers generally. There Rafer has always been accepted on terms of his worth alone-as a responsible leader in grammar and high school, as an able and dignified president of the high school student body, as a welcome guest at social affairs of home, church...
...been summoned to a special press conference to hear them. While the Communists smiled and applauded and Westerners in the audience felt sick at heart, the two renounced their U.S. citizenship, retailed what they knew or suspected about secret U.S. intelligence activities, and pushed the current Soviet propaganda line that the U.S. is risking the peace of the world by persistent espionage. They also demonstrated beyond a doubt that there are serious flaws in U.S. security procedures...
...always available. I regarded him as neither a popular choice nor a man who could provide the kind of leadership the party needed. I overlooked the diligent activity of lobbyists of the automobile industry, the business organizations and the beef trust, who were scurrying all over town trying to line up votes for Halleck...
...Pennsy to submit the issues to binding arbitration, held out for his "rockbottom" terms-including a demand that the Pennsy settle a union jurisdictional dispute in favor of his union. Quill still demanded power to prevent the Pennsy from assigning his workers to different jobs on the line, from closing antiquated plants and selling obsolete equipment, from contracting out maintenance and construction work. He even wanted his unionists to service the autos driven by Pennsy salesmen. Management negotiators turned him down...
...book commences, he and she are fanning a white flame of rage. They alternately argue bitterly and refuse to recognize each other's existence. The issue is the execution of a union leader named Krasnitz, who shot a plant owner when the man tried to cross a picket line. The facts make any judgment questionable, but to John, of course, Krasnitz is simply a murderer, and to Herta he is a martyr of the class war. As stubborn husband and angry wife sit before the television set waiting for Krasnitz to walk his last mile, the author examines...