Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer some of the problems raised by the Ford plan. But the basic pattern had been set. Trying to avoid a fourth round of wage rises, U.S. industry had no alternative but to agree to the large, new experiment in one way or another and hope for the best...
Guns & Dynamite. The trouble reached to other rebellious patches of John L. Lewis' empire as picketing union miners tried to repair small defects in the weapon that had always served them best-a nationwide coal strike. A Hawkes Coal Co. tipple near Morgantown, Ky. was dynamited. In a lonely stretch of northwest Alabama, six brothers named Preskitt stocked their 150-ton-a-day strip mine with all the weapons they could find and waited grimly for something to happen...
...individually he is counting on the aid of Win Knowlton at right wing and Bern Floring at center half. These two men have looked about the best in Guyda's grab-bag workouts...
...described as a marked tendency among modern writers to fear any kind of power-political or social-and as a result to preach a doctrine of "wilful irresponsibility" in their books. Mrs. Janeway concluded, however, that "we are on an up-curve of talent and ability...and our best writers are, perhaps more than ever, truly concerned with how people live...
...emphasized the danger of "critical imperatives" by others than the writers themselves. But he found the general literary picture today-except in poetry, which he condemned for its "stuttering incomprehensibility"-rather better than ever before. "We are lucky," he concluded, "that the present writing is heterogeneous, and that our best writers will follow their own stars," despite the criticism of orthodox schools of writing