Word: worker
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fakes pregnancy (with the help of a pillow) to get on welfare. She does not succeed, though, because the case-worker who comes to call is enamored of her silver shoes ("Just like the shoes Joan Crawford always wore!") to the extent that he will not put her on the dole list unless she gives them to him. She will not. Bribing welfare workers to get the money she rightfully deserves is a violation of her principles...
...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 are static. I certainly am not going to "Buy American" simply to satisfy the unions' endless greed and penalize myself in quality and value to do so. Indeed, my only consideration will be the best buy for the money. This, I believe, is the American...
When the fund-raising began, Andrew Imutan took a microphone up on the terrace above the lawn and asked everybody to shut their [sic] eyes and pretend they [sic] were a farm worker's wife in the dusty plains of Delano, California, eating baloney sandwiches for breakfast at 3 a. m. before heading out into the fields. . . . So they all stood there in their Pucci dresses, Gucci shoes, Capucci scarves, either imagining they were grape workers' wives or wondering if the goddamned wind would ever stop. The wind had come up off the ocean and it was wrecking everybody...
...Salinas, Calif., court sent Cesar Chavez to jail last Friday for refusing to call off the national boycott of non-United Farm Worker lettuce...
Harvard will purchase only United Farm Worker lettuce, L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president, announced in a statement to be released this morning...