Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bare Knuckles. Returning to Detroit in 1935, Reuther plunged into union work, and organized a U.A.W. local whose membership grew from 78 to 30,000 in one year. Leader of Detroit's first big sitdown strike at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Plant, he also played a major role in the U.A.W.'s unionization of Ford. Reuther's bitterest foes were the U.A.W.'s Communists. He won his first major battle with the Communists in 1946, when he took the U.A.W.'s presidency away from R. J. Thomas, whom the Communists had supported. He clinched...
...rest of the production passes muster easily. The set (by Holland Olivus) is excellent, simple and yet by no means bare; the minor parts are well enough handled, though there are a few rough spots; the direction (by Harold Stone) was good, as near as I can judge. The program also calls attention to some directed by Karl Kanter. They were great...
...students were not the only ones who gained from these special events. Often, the government official would bare his most difficult problems to the seminar, in the hope that some bright young man could apply some theory and come up with an answer he had been too harried to discover. It is said that Leon Henderson found solutions to some of the intricacies of price controls in the Littauer Lounge...
...Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, who bolted the Republican Party during the presidential campaign, announced that he would vote with Republicans in the organization of the new Senate, thus assuring the G.O.P. of a bare majority, 49-47. To vote with the Democrats, he said, would give the Eisenhower Administration "a narrowly drawn excuse for legislative irresponsibility." But Maverick Morse, who made it clear that he would be voting against the Republicans as often as with them, refused to discuss committee assignments with either party. In 1956, he said, he will run for re-election as an Independent...
...social routine that is so natural a part of undergraduate life, cramps it more severely than the Housemasters Committee and many other colleges have found necessary. This will be particularly disconcerting on Saturdays, when dates are usually an all-day matter. Save for football extravaganzas, Saturday afternoons are usually bare of entertainment, unless there are room privileges, a point the Administrative Board forgot...