Word: bag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reuther talks about a "bold new approach" designed to promote job security and opportunity. Actually, his bag contains a wide assortment of general proposals, and once he has felt the companies out, he will surely inflate one of his goals into a major issue. Though he has mentioned no specific wage hikes, he talks of creating new jobs through earlier retirement or a shorter work week. He wants to improve pension and unemployment-benefit plans, wants production workers to be paid salaries instead of hourly wages, wants the companies to pay all of hospital insurance premiums. He also wants...
Once that's accomplished, Elvis turns out to be an author possessed by-as Clifford Odets, who wrote the film, puts it-"beauty and power and excitement." Hope and Elvis motor up to the state university to bag a scholarship from the friendly old white-haired English professor. On the way back it rains, and, perhaps a bit too cautiously heedful of the fact that the car has bald tires, they take lodging (separate rooms, of course) at a motel. But love blooms through the plasterboard, and some lowlife spreads the news. Scandal breaks loose. Elvis sings several mournful...
Last month, Mayor Dilworth hurried back to Philadelphia, ruthlessly fired every accused employee, no matter how lightly tainted. Three clerks were discharged for accepting $25 to $50 Christmas gifts. Last week, when Travis announced that he had given Public Property Commissioner William Gennetti a $50 golf bag, Gennetti denied the charge. Dilworth agreed that Gennetti was probably innocent, but accepted his resignation just the same and replaced him with a man who vowed to work without salary...
...students in the 550-650 range in the SAT's who swung the admissions committee over to his side by favorable extra-curricular abilities, as do members of the Glee Club, band, Crimson, also. He may be a gentleman, and he may be socially ungraceful. "Harvard is a mixed bag," Bender noted quite keenly: "You can say almost anything, cite examples, and prove...
...mainland, north of Athens, are the Northern Sporades and the delightful island of Skiathos. Its beach, Koukounaries, is one of the finest in the Aegean, and the sand, laced with mica, glitters like silver. Skiathos is a playground for the sturdy loner who is happy with rucksack and sleeping bag. Although the islanders are conservative enough to be repelled by the sight of women in shorts or slacks, they are also warm and carefree. One night recently, two American women who had bedded down in sleeping bags in a park, woke suddenly to find the young men of the village...