Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting force to win what its members wanted. Under a capitalistic sytem, one of unionism's functions was to limit the power of owners and managers. Had it a similar function in the socialist (or socialoid) society which unionism had created? T.U.C. delegates last week fumbled around for answers, found none...
Citizens gathered around the sailors in the streets and crowded quays, staring with awe at the U.S. men and warships. To pro-Franco folk the visit looked like a friendly gesture towards their leader. To anti-Franco folk the U.S. flag and sailors were a demonstration of a way of life for which they long...
...gesture of solidarity with the Communists in their break with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. She spent two years in Moscow, then returned to Nationalist China. She remained frankly hostile to the Chiang Kai-shek regime, dabbled in welfare work, gathered a circle of international left-wingers around her. When the Communists took over Shanghai, she fell in with their plans for Sino-Soviet friendship...
Although Eeriykoot's crime carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, he got only a year, which he will spend as a handyman around the Cambridge Bay police post. His only real punishment will be separation from home. For the primitively clannish Eskimos, that alone, the government hopes, will help make aided suicide an outmoded custom...
...most likely to become baseball's rookie of the year is a huge (6 ft. 4 in.) pitcher named Don Newcombe. He weighs 235 lbs. and throws baseballs so hard that to batters they look like aspirin tablets coming toward the plate. Around the National League, players agree that the hulking giant in a Brooklyn Dodger uniform is the best right-hander in the business...