Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What made Bridges' unionists tighten up was a crowd of a thousand angry A.F.L. men marching through the mist toward Pier 39. They were armed with two-by-fours, baseball bats wrapped in newspaper and lengths of chain. As they approached the pier, the shout went up: "Let's push those goddam Commies off the wharf! Let's get our men off the ship...
...Sohn Won II that promised: "You will get all your back pay. You will be promoted in the army. You will be cited for meritorious achievement. You will be given priority to take a government job." But the unbelieving Red P.W.s stayed hunched on their backless wooden benches. They chain-smoked and tried to keep warm. One started to make a propaganda speech ("I saw Americans bombing our camps with germs . . ."), but the Indian chairman quickly cut him off. The others spoke little, and without passion. Only when the ROK explainers showed photographs or played tape recordings from home...
...saint is good. Adorned with horns, a lizard-like tail and a hideous black tongue, Krampus makes it his business to scare the living daylights out of children. As little Hans or Fritz, cowering behind his mother's skirts, diffidently proclaims his virtue, Krampus rattles a huge chain or lashes the air with a switch in menacing disbelief. Sometimes he even comes equipped with a large basket in which to carry off young people whose stories clearly won't wash. However virtuous Junior's conduct during the preceding year may have been, a bout with Krampus usually...
...primacy in the original church, and on the genuineness of the disputed text from St. Matthew's gospel supporting it. But he sharply rejects the Catholic claim that Peter began the papal succession. His finding: "In the life of Peter there is no starting point for a chain of succession to the leadership of the church at large...
Manufacturers have also learned an important lesson: overconcentration of production often merely buys factory efficiency at the expense of economic distribution. More and more, manufacturers are building smaller plants designed to serve individual regional markets. Thus, on both ends of the distribution chain, manufacturers and merchants are coming to realize the same thing: the only way to cut down distribution expense is to organize it on the same large-volume, low-profit principle as production...