Word: midways
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...America will not-indeed, it cannot -tolerate for long the crippling of the entire economy as the result of labor-management disputes in any one basic industry," said the President midway in the speech delivered from the White House just before he took off for Europe and Asia. "The choice," said he, "is up to free American employers and American employees. Voluntarily, in the spirit of free collective bargaining, they will act responsibly; or else, in due course, their countrymen will see to it that they do act responsibly...
...Midway in the television show, Moderator Susskind turned to Fred Cook with a question that he had been primed by a Nation pressagent to ask: "Did you in your research [on the 1956 slum-clearance series] ever encounter a lack of cooperation, or bribes?" Yes indeed, said Cook. Thereupon he proceeded to tell how, during the investigations, a "high city official" had offered Gleason $75 to $100 a week for laying off. "We can put your wives on the payroll," the city official supposedly said to Gleason, "and you won't have to do anything for it, just stop...
...genocidal plan for making Midway Island safe for Homo Americanus volitans makes one suspect that the Navy is not up on its Ancient Mariner. If it were, the Navy would know that the penalty for killing an albatross is disaster...
...have read with great pleasure "Greatest & Last Battle of a Naval Era" [Oct. 26]. The author of the story of Leyte Gulf has done a very fine job of condensing this great battle. Your organization most courteously provided for us copies of your similar treatment of the Battle of Midway. We have used Mr. Chapin's diagrammatic portrayal of that battle in our classrooms. It has been most helpful...
...Midway in the party, three unawed children dressed as witches and a black cat bounded in the door, demanded trick or treat. For a time, Touré and Stevenson were closeted in the study, talking about trade conditions in Guinea. The dinner party might have lasted longer had not Mrs. Touré's dress Zipper broken. After temporary repairs with safety pins she collected her husband, headed home...