Word: among
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressers and cutters, sample-makers and finishers, their clothes all somehow keep a memory of the immigrants' bundle, of steamy East Side kitchens, of under-shirted evenings at an open window. In the shops above, "the girls" gossip over their box lunches at the long tables among stacks of unfinished "garments" (it is never "blouses" or "slips" or "dresses" in the Center...
...Maverick. Last week David Dubinsky climbed on a train and headed for the A.F.L. Executive Council meeting in Toronto. As usual, A.F.L. elders received him warily. At 57, Dubinsky is a brash youth and a maverick among the chieftains of the council, who clung to isolationism as long as they dared, who had backed reluctantly into political action and who once regarded unemployment insurance as dangerously socialistic...
...caged animal, firing back in vicious bursts-now from the front of the house, now from the side, now from the back. Glass smashed and tinkled, neighborhood women screamed, bullets hummed and a reckless crowd of 10,000 people began jamming into the street. New police reinforcements arrived, among them the force's top brass. Fire trucks rumbled into the street and turned huge searchlights on Craig's bullet-riddled fortress...
...Among the men who make them convincing is tall, bald Perry Wilson, a 60-year-old ex-architect who joined the museum staff when his business went to pot in 1934. Last week, in a secluded hall just back of the battling moose, Wilson was drawing a pond and trees in charcoal on the curved back of an empty display case. "Half a dozen beavers are going in here," he said. "One of them will have just come out of the water, and one will be gnawing a branch-to bring out the teeth...
...Among the other countries whose Catholics have made claims for a cardinal is the Belgian Congo, with more than 4,000,000 Catholics and 28 apostolic dioceses. Said the Congo's Apostolic Delegate to a friend recently: "I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a Negro bishop made his appearance to get his red hat at the next consistory...