Word: buckely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly, the disillusioned affiliates of the National Federation of Telephone Workers began preparing for N.F.T.W.'s own funeral. From the start of the strike they had realized that N.F.T.W., unaffiliated with either C.I.O. or A.F.L., was too weak to buck the concerted power of A.T. & T. Now it was so battered it hardly seemed worth reviving. In Manhattan, the executive board of the long lines operators, by unanimous vote, recommended secession from the N.F.T.W. and the organization of a new union within the C.I.O...
Then the Army & Navy Bulletin burst out with the news that Mom's husband had been no rear admiral, but a World War I buck private. Mom still insisted, a little lamely, that the Skipper was a rear admiral. But newsmen, whom she greeted in a sky-blue negligee, got several versions of his career: he had really been only a Navy captain, but she had boosted his rank to help "open Washington doors"; he had been a Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt and was bitten by a cobra while hunting with Roosevelt in Africa; he had been called...
...custom dies hard in England. To Kingsteignton's rescue came Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, who invited the village's ram-roast committee to the deer park of his 3,000-acre estate, let them shoot a buck. With that slight deviation to modern complexities, the village planned to carry on its ancient rite this week. But Kingsteigntonians were still rankled by the irreverent crack of a Communist M.P. during Rayner's plea. The Commie sneered that this was "one of those heathen customs the Conservative Party wants to retain...
Records and Publications lacking any knowledge of standard procedure for the suburban press, the ladies moved on to Dean Watson's office, from which they were guided to Lehman Hall. The afternoon odyssey ended back at the Housing office, where it was suggested they pass on to Provost Buck...
...Provost Buck being unavailable, the editors returned to Harvardevens to prepare dinner. The status of the "Free Press, is still undetermined...