Word: aproned
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...hearings on the Mt. Clemens case, to measure the trifles. It should have been easy. He had gone to the Mt. Clemens plant himself, to check on makeready practices from time clocks to work benches. He wanted everyone to agree that it took twelve seconds to put on an apron, 20 seconds to clean hands, that a man walked 275 ft. a minute, etc. But the company and union lawyers would not agree. Furthermore, they would not agree on which of these functions were trifles or on whether trifles should be added up to working time which...
General Marshall himself arrived at 10 minutes before 8. On a cold concrete apron, wet with melted snow, a cluster of photographers and dignitaries were waiting. Among the latter were Ambassador Stuart, Premier T. V. Soong, Chief of Staff Chen Cheng, Communications Minister Yu Ta-wei, Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh, General G. Q. Huang, Communist spokesman Wang Ping-nan. It was all very casual and informal-no ropes, no visible guards; everyone intermingled...
...from the center of the University. How rough this life is or isn't varies undoubtedly with the individuals concerned, but a definite ray of light was east by a New Yorker correspondent recently, who on passing a Quenset Huf and "glaneing through a window, saw a maid in apron and lace-cap briskly shaking up cockfails...
...Those sponsored by the West and likely to be blackballed by Russia: Trans-Jordan (still tied to British apron strings), Eire (the anti-Communist slant even exceeds the anti-British) and Siam (still technically at war with France...
...label of Disc) which included such typically offbeat items as Trinidad Calypsos by "Lord (Rum & Coca-Cola) Invader," new "sinful" songs by the Negro ex-convict Leadbelly, a newly famed jazz trio playing Harlem blues and a Creole lullaby, Mandolinist Bess Lomax singing Careless Love ("Now my apron strings won't pin"), four French Resistance writers reading their own poems and editorials...