Word: shop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Close Trim. In Chicago, Barber Felix Opychany told police that a customer first had a haircut, then robbed the shop...
...been an inspector for the War Department's Signal Service until early 1945, when he was fired for Communist affiliations. He broke off all open contacts with the party, quit subscribing to the Daily Worker and set up as the owner of a small, non-union machine shop in Manhattan. But the FBI kept its many eyes...
...York Times contract. The Guild replied that it would accept the entire Times contract, but not just its "worst features." Management withdrew its offer. It also took a full-page ad in the Times, restating Editor Roy W. Howard's objection to any kind of editorial Guild shop as "prejudicial to . . . objectivity...
...London apartment. He couldn't get it because the greengrocer who owned it wanted too much money. Recently the British government lifted its import ban on coconuts. Obabunmi sent a hurry call to Nigeria. Two tons of coconuts arrived in London. Customers thronged the greengrocer's shop. Mr. & Mrs. Obabunmi last week were living in the greengrocer's apartment...
Even the Review's traditional English lessons for Chinese readers have become party-line jabberwocky. One recent issue analyzed the sentence: "Pa may be a thoughtful union man in the shop, but when he picks up a magazine, he likes to study the ads for new cars." The Review explained that "Pa" was slang for "father." Then it added: "This sentence portrays the average American as shortsighted politically ... He does not want to be informed, he wants merely to escape into a dream world in his leisure hours." With Editor Powell's homeland now fighting his friends...