Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steelworkers' President David McDonald dismissed the offer as "the same old package," insisted that by the union's figuring the actual cash value of the offer was still no more than 24 ?. As for the softer approach to work-rule reform, McDonald said it only made it clearer that the companies were out to take away "our hard-fought gains...
...line situation is much clearer, and very promising. Five men are graduating from the first two lines, but the nine returnees form the nucleus of a potentially excellent unit. Captain Hank Keohane and Dave Cappiello, the starting ends, will be missed, but the second pair of Bob Boyda and Bert Mennsenbaugh was outstanding all year and can fill the gap beautifully, with Alex Hart and freshman Ron Bonebrake behind them...
...failures, however, have not been complete: while helping to destroy the myth that all school boards and trustees were negligent in failing to institute revised schedules, they provided a far clearer understanding of the potential, as well as of the inherent difficulties, of trying to modify the academic year...
...Western skies temporarily looked clearer, the storm clouds were still piling up in the East. In New Delhi last week the Indian government put out a map showing in detail the extensive areas on its side of the Himalayas (including some 6,000 sq. mi. of Pakistan) that the Red Chinese claim and, in some cases, have seized by force of arms. The eight SEATO nations declared anew their determination to aid the kingdom of Laos against invasion from Communist North Viet Nam, and in Laos itself members of the U.N. fact-finding mission trying to get into the frontier...
...both individual and group conferences, the subjects discuss the factors behind delinquency and other topics that lead them toward a clearer understanding of themselves. Boys get into trouble, one subject stated, "because they have no money and no one will give them any money so they go out and steal and so it ends up into trouble and they get put in jail." Another subject noted, "In my short period attending here so far, I have never since I can remember, felt greater mentally...