Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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As I read the article, I pictured myself as having been a Charlie O. during air flights, but several of my fellow passengers also opened up. Perhaps we never had an "authentic dialogue" but an alternating series of monologues that fell on deaf ears. Ears deaf because of the secure...
Sir: Mr. Maddocks' Essay, "In Praise of Reticence," was a point well taken. But since his subject was reticence rather than noise, he might have done well to include the suffocating written word as well as the spoken one. For while it is true that . . . Most of us suffer...
Sir: Your article, "The High Price of Peace in Detroit" [Nov. 23], makes me want to say "Congratulations, U.A.W. and Mr. Woodcock, for pricing yourselves right out of the market." Certainly this and labor's demands in general rival the ecological mess as a classic example of man'...
I am one blue-collar worker (railroad) who is truly thankful for the countless blessings that I have. I grieve, however, at the greed and selfishness that labor unions are displaying while doing such great harm to those they represent, to say nothing of the forgotten Americans on pensions that...
Sir: U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock has just become the greatest salesman of foreign cars in the U.S.