Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the dark hill they ran beside the rolling caravan. Then the woman jumped for the running board of the car to pull its brakes. She slipped, fell, lay groaning, while her distracted companion rushed to her side. The car rolled on, crunched solidly into a tree on the brink of the lake...
...gasoline gives an infernal aspect to this operation of war. An armistice of 24 hours may mean the lives of the women and children. I beg His Excellency the Spanish Foreign Minister to have these women and children who in the Alcázar are locked on the brink of Death placed in the care of the Diplomatic Corps...
Meantime Promoter Clarke was trying desperately to keep Utilities Power & Light from teetering over the brink of disaster. At one time its debentures sold as low as 22? on the dollar. Nevertheless, Promoter Clarke, who is still Utilities Power & Light's president, managed to scrape together enough cash on every interest date, thus avoid receivership or reorganization...
...issue was industrial v. craft unionism-clashing philosophies whose champions had at last come to the brink of open war. Though the fateful declaration was postponed by the American Federation of Labor's Executive Council, meeting in Washington last week, and though the contending forces were still formally united in the Federation, the battle lines were already clearly drawn. On one side were ranged William Green and his fellow craft unionists, representing nearly two-thirds of A. F. of L.'s membership. Beneficiaries of an entrenched order, they would fight to preserve it. Against them stood John Llewellyn...
...brink of what many an observer thought promised to become a historic industrial war, Industrial Unionist Lewis also moved closer last week to a show-down in his struggle with President William Green & fellow craft unionists of the American Federation of Labor...