Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal fight with Dawson. A year ago Abner sensed that many a Chicago Negro felt Dawson was wrong in helping work out a compromise civil rights plank at the Democratic National Convention. Abner persuaded South Side Negroes (but not enough) to cut Dawson in the November election, began to build a U.A.W.-weighted political organization in Dawson's practically private First District. Accepting the vendetta, Dawson built up his own anti-Abner squad inside the N.A.A.C.P. When the chapter's annual election rolled around. Abner, seven of his officers, and eight Abner-picked directors were swept...
...shouts of "Treason!" were hurled at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan from the Visitors' Gallery. Snapped Aneurin Bevan, Labor's left-leaning spokesman on foreign affairs: "We are profoundly depressed when representative after representative of the British government . . . has no advice to give to the nation except to build up one more tier of ridiculous armaments on the useless pile we have created." The government won the vote, 289 to 251. But its majority was smaller than usual, and five right-wing Tories abstained...
...Most of my adult life was spent working for the News-and I think I may claim that I helped a bit to build it. I served as reporter, editor and head of the United Nations bureau, which I organized. In addition, I wrote half a dozen pretty fair books [including Twentieth Century Warfare, How the Army Fights...
...generates is impressive. Beaten, starved, baked in a sheet-iron oven-how can the colonel possibly hold out? But he does. Backed by bayonets, stiffened by his code-how can Saito possibly give in? But he does. The British troops so successfully sabotage the bridge they are supposed to build that Saito is forced to ask the colonel's help, and to capitulate to his terms...
...Having risked his life for the principle that captured officers shall not do manual work, the colonel now decides that they shall. They shall do it, he announces, to the horror of his subordinates, because the British prisoners are not going to sabotage the bridge; they are going to build it; and in building it, they will not only "teach these Japanese a lesson," they will build the health and the morale of the entire battalion...