Word: postalized
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...flop. There were some riots and train delays in outlying towns, but in Paris, ordinarily the showcase of Red agitation, the streets were quiet and transportation was almost normal. M. Brune announced that only 2% of the C.G.T.'s membership had answered the strike call. Of 240,000 postal and telegraph workers, only two walked out-and were instantly suspended...
Currently engaged in the battle against government in medicine are a standing army of doctors, a sitting army of AMA lobbyists, and a mailing army. The postal brigade is the National Fund for Medical Education, which last week mailed appeals to 17,000 corporations for funds for the nation's medical schools...
...stand and wait. If one says he has no dollar to spare just now, the mailman will plunk his ticket on the nearest flat surface with the promise to come back for the dollar later. Some, perhaps, with iron wills and few correspondents are able to think of the postal solicitors as annual nuisances, whom they can dismiss with a series of flat, firm "no's." Many more, defeated by timidity and high-pressure salesmanship, surrender their dollars...
Lilian Guest, 50-year-old charwoman in Godalming, Surrey, for years has performed a weekly ritual. Every Thursday she laboriously fills out long and complicated forms with her choices of winners in Britain's football (i.e., soccer) matches. Then she mails them off with a postal order for a few shillings to cover her previous week's bet. Last week Lilian's patient efforts were rewarded. She got word that she had won $210,000. "And to think," said Mrs. Guest, "that I was out charring only this morning." To Lilian Guest, the money was no more...
...slapstick is François (Jacques Tati), a sad-faced, gangling, rural postman who looks like a cross between General Charles de Gaulle and oldtime silent Comic Charles Chase. On the annual fair day (jour de fête), François sees a movie about high-speed American postal methods and develops a mania for movement...