Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merits of Wilson's plan, it held no hope of settling the controversy: labor will never willingly give up the 40-hour week it fought so long to write into law. Reuther, hopping mad, jumped back into print with a reply that made nobody happier, did nothing to add to Walter Reuther's stature...
...very-frequent drink, playing poker and sleeping late (until 8 o'clock one morning). He had his picture taken while giving a playful spank to moppet Mike Moffet. Back at his desk he swiftly cleaned up the accumulation of routine. One of his first decisions: to try to add Nashville, Tenn., and its James K. Polk sesquicentennial celebration on Nov. 6 to his North Carolina-Georgia trip...
This week the public was still taking it-and not liking it. Long accustomed to labor's getting its own way, it waited for the Government to add up the bill and present the check. Not so the soldier. Angered before by strikes in wartime, he boiled over again at the longshoremen's strike, which was slowing down his return home. This week the New York Times printed soldiers' bitter letters on Page One. Typical excerpt...
...like many another seadog since the days of Salamis, Fleet Admiral Nimitz seemed to yaw a little in the shifting winds of press conferences. Example: of the atomic bomb he said, "It is a weapon which will undoubtedly add to the complexities of field commanders...
...soon as the cast is thinned down to working consistency, three expert craftsmen-Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston and Roland Young, as splendid old scoundrels-are given a chance to peer, leer and sneer it up for all they are worth. With Louis Hayward and June Duprez to add youth & beauty, the last five survivors manage to make a mildly interesting stretch run for the finish...