Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon's pollster, Joe Bachelder, reported that Oregon primary voters were worried about education, public works and inflation-and Nixon quickly stressed those issues. Pollster John F. Kraft warned Robert Kennedy before the Indiana primary that he had the Negro vote sewed up but faced trouble from blue-collar whites; Kennedy shifted his campaign emphasis from help for the poor to law and order...
...seemed to be on the road to recovery. Faculty and administrators were getting down to the first serious talks about reform, and when student rebels occupied a university-owned tenement on Morningside Heights to protest conditions in the building, police managed to break up that demonstration without ruffling a collar...
...Collar and cuffs, white cap; aquamarine...
Blue & White. The feminine invasion is most noticeable in blue-collar jobs. Falling birth rates after World War II in many countries created a shortage of the manpower necessary to keep up with the demands of rising economies. Womanpower was a logical solution. Moreover, tests have shown that in such areas as manual dexterity, eye-hand coordination and depth perception, women generally excel...
...White-collar women are moving ahead at a slower pace. In the U.S., where 41% of all women work, the proportion of working women classified as professional and technical has dropped from 45% in 1940 to 37% today because G.I. Bill-educated ex-servicemen have moved into these fields in larger numbers. Women as a percentage of the total work force, in the same period, increased from 26% to 36% as more blue-collar women moved into the jobs such men might have held. Determined women are still finding new opportunities. Since women buy 45% of the liquor purchased...