Word: shop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone ate a turkey, a giant spruce tree from New Jersey was raised over the Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink. The Christmas season was already under way. In the Northern California lumber town of Burney, Don Whitman, 67, closed down his barbershop and his wife Edna locked her antique shop, and the two of them renewed a family tradition: cutting Christmas trees. "It's a happiness business," says Mrs. Whitman. "I imagine all the excitement and joy connected with every Christmas tree I cut." By the time they are through, they will have cut 60,000. For that they...
...talked to Stu Eizenstat about the illegal-immigration problem, about the tax bill. I just can't seem to get our ideas communicated. I've yet to see an idea come out of Eizenstat's shop...
...logical procession, the front people off first, the people in the back off last. Each of us puts on his or her own coat; however, anyone who sees someone else struggling to get into a coat lends a helping hand ... A person picks up a check in the coffee shop or a restaurant when it's his or her turn. A man or a woman stands up in the office to greet a male or a female visitor." Tish gears her book to an intuition that manners are practical and even liberating. They have long since been disjoined from moral...
...Representative Martha Keys of Kansas once had a twelve-point lead in polls over conservative Republican Jim Jeffries. But right-to-life adherents ganged up on her, and others doubted her ability to combine her marriage to Indiana Representative Andrew Jacobs with representing Kansas. Said Jeffries: "Martha doesn't shop here any more." She lost...
...union membership refused to ratify the contract without a compromise on benefits and openly expressed a lack of faith in University promises, Edward W. Powers, Harvard's chief labor negotiator, threatened to withdraw wage concessions. And the union fell into line. Powers also repeatedly accused the union's chief shop steward of "bad faith negotiating" because he revealed his dissatisfaction with the contract. Relations between the two deteriorated so severely during the negotiations that Powers barely troubled to hide his contempt. In the aftermath of the heated contract debate, kitchen workers remain quietly frustrated. So did the printing workers after...