Word: chucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business, said soft-voiced, hard-minded Chuck Luckman, deserved its reputation for being opposed to "everything that spells greater security, wellbeing, or peace of mind for the little guy." Why? "Well, we declared war on collective bargaining . . . battled child-labor legislation . . . yipped and yowled against minimum-wage laws . . . and currently we are kicking the hell out of proposals to provide universal sickness and accident insurance...
With such a reformation, Chuck Luckman foresaw a rosy future. He told the super-marketeers: "Your business ... can and should double during the next generation if the leadership of American business is willing to establish as its objective for 1970 a standard of living for the American wage-earners which is at least 100% higher than the level of today...
...Republican landslide, said he, should give business "a favorable Government climate to conduct its stewardship." But there was danger in it, too-the danger that "complacency may lead us in business to slide back, and to revert to past attitudes of indifference and unconcern for the people." Warned Chuck Luckman: "That attitude was repudiated once before. ... It can be repudiated again...
Only two of the regular backfield will start against the Cantabs, Roy Swingler, driving full back, and chuck Nelson, right half, top pass receiver and pas defender of Abe Englemen. Tommy Dorsey, left halfback may start although he has been bothered by a nose injury this week...
...game with Eliot; but not until the third period could the Funsters break through the stubborn, big red wall to score. Jim Aldrich carried off-tackle at midfield and galloped 45 yards to the Elephant five. After two plays had moved the ball to the one-foot line, Chuck MacDonald cracked over for the game's only touchdown...