Word: buttering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to these internal problems, SDS will raise substantial conflicts of ideology in appealing simultaneously to the two exploited classes it seeks to organize. If past projects in labor union organizing are any guide, SDS will organize the working class around bread and butter issues--steady jobs, higher wages and better working conditions. It will urge laborers to join unions and gain power over their employers as a means to increases in material welfare and higher standards of consumption. The power it urges the new working class to achieve will depend on very different values. The enemy will...
...wife, daughter (Jeanne Hepple) and creation. Actor Denholm Elliott buries the poet in a rubble of rant, and the cast mouths more different brogues than there are counties in Ireland. As for Noel Coward's brittle trio of one-acters, time has partly damaged them, and this butter-fingered troupe completes...
Died. Direck Jayanama, 62, Thai patriot, Deputy Premier in 1946-47 and seven-time Cabinet minister, who during his service as Foreign Minister in World War II managed with great sangfroid to butter up Thailand's Japanese masters while at the same time holding a top post in the resistance movement against Japan, early in 1945 led a secret mission to Ceylon to confer with the Allied command about organizing a Free Thai uprising, and was later awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom; of stomach cancer; in Bangkok...
...term Congressman, it is astonishing that Conyers has been able to project a national image for himself. Essentially, he is a "bread-and-butter" man; his main concern is with improving the economic lot of the nation's Negro. He is more publicly interested in the matters politicians deal with -- poverty programs and Negro bloc voting power -- than he is with "blank consciousness." Yet his personality and intellect are such that he has not shut himself off from the more alienated part of the Negro population. An elected official, Conyers must be concerned with political -- and economic -- power...
...image. T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his mythological status because of the "cringing, obsequious" way he called Augustus John "Master." Besides, after he bragged to the children that he lived on a daily handful of raisins, Lawrence's icebox was discovered to be stuffed with chicken, meat, butter...