Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relatively simple labor problem. Last August Mrs. Jayaben Desai, a tiny Indian immigrant from Tanzania, walked off her job as a film processor in protest against the low wages ($42.50 a week), poor working conditions and compulsory overtime imposed on the predominantly Asian work force by Grunwick's Anglo-Indian managing director George Ward. With six other employees, Mrs. Desai joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX), a moderate, nonmilitant, white-collar trade union. In the next few days, more than 100 Grunwick employees joined APEX. Ward, who describes himself as "not antiunion, just nonunion...
...such heroes in the fiction of Louis Auchincloss, and his romantics almost always pay for succumbing to egoism and stepping out of line Auchincloss's novels and story collections (nearly one a year for 20 years) deal almost exclusively with New York City's white Anglo-Saxon Protestant haven of old name and old money, whose corridor of power runs from the brownstones and duplexes of the Upper East Side to the paneled offices of Wall Street. It is an influential, publicity-shy world where the rules of the game are hardened by tradition. The costs, and sometimes...
...Stoker's tale, Dracula is destroyed in a combined Anglo-American gesture: Jonathan Marker, an Englishman, decapitates Dracula with his great kukri knife in the same moment that Quincey Morris, a young Texan, drives his bowie knife into Dracula's heart. Stakes are used against vampires in Stoker's novel, but only against ravishingly attractive females...
...interview with McWhirter, Minister Hawkins insisted that the raid was purely a military operation stemming "from our inherent right of self-defense." But did Smith have political motives in authorizing the mission? Western diplomats noted that the raid began the same morning an Anglo-American negotiating team, headed by British Diplomat John Graham and U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Stephen Low, left Salisbury for the Mozambican capital of Maputo. Their mission: to discuss a possible settlement with Black Nationalist Leader Robert Mugabe, head of the Zimbabwe African National Union and co-chairman with Joshua Nkomo of the Patriotic Front, the joint...
Spectacles are nothing new for Parish Priest Frank R. Knutti, 70, whose parish is involved in both the Anglo-Catholic and Neo-Pentecostal movements. Before entering the ministry late in life, he was variously a jazz saxophonist, a member of a barnstorming aviation troupe, and a manager of several radio stations. Accompanied by his blind cocker spaniel Taffy, he zips around his parish...