Word: among
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York. This week again, he pleaded for peace and understanding among men-though in more general and gentler tones-when he laid the cornerstone of the half-finished new United Nations Building in Manhattan (see INTERNATIONAL). Then, after lunching with Mayor Bill O'Dwyer-a gesture which was calculated to help the mayor's chances in the New York election two weeks hence-he went back to Washington...
...first session of the 81st Congress, which had begun its work in high hope ten months ago and passed through despairing depths, ended last week in wan and shaky congratulations among the Democratic majority. There was a great deal of tired, last-minute fun: barbershop ballads, a few well-placed smooches on the cheek by departing Congresswomen and gay festivities by congressional employees (see cut) whose salaries had just been raised...
Smaller users of steel fell unhappily into line with production cuts or layoffs. Among the big employers were General Electric, the Simmons [mattress] Co., 37 steel-container manufacturers, some farm-equipment works of J. I. Case. In stagnating steel towns workers gathered morosely in the shadow of smokeless stacks, playing cards and trading worries as they waited their turns on the picket lines. Even an immediate end of the strike would not halt the grinding slowdown. It would take six to eight weeks of production to put sufficient steel back in circulation...
...backfield, it is fairly light for a Crusader team but being all-sophomore its consequent inexperience has been the source of many of Osmanski's troubles. Fumbles and penalties, among other errors of omission and commission, have hurt Holy Cross to the extent of five straight losses...
After the elected Council convenes, it elects a mayor from among its members, who serves mainly as titular head of the council, presiding over meetings, and representing the city at birthdays, weddings, funerals and affairs of state. As real director of the municipality, the Council appoints a city manager, who may be anyone the nine chooses to select...