Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing could be further from the truth. For the last fifty years, the junior executives and upper-blue-collar workers that inhabit Delaware County's suburbs have consistently turned out in impressive numbers for issueless elections to vote straight Republican. Last November, they returned to Congress Lawrence G. Williams, an incredibly incompetent conservative who has drawn fire from most independent voices in the county...
...upper hand. Unless Congress can override his vetoes, which is unlikely, many of his cuts will probably stick. But groups that never used to speak to one another are now raising their voices together in a chorus of protest. Farmers and bankers, tenants and landlords, poor blacks and blue-collar whites find that, at least temporarily, they share common grievances...
Earlier in the meeting, Vellucci received a loud ovation from the tenants when he said, "If I had any say about it I'd make damn sure there were some blue-collar and working class tenants on the Rent Board...
...French discontent evidently runs far deeper. Despite the evidence of economic progress, prosperity has not sufficiently filtered down to many blue-and white-collar workers and professionals, as well as elderly people living on wretched pensions. Nearly two-thirds of the country's 15 million workers earn less than $300 a month, while more than 2.5 million retired men and women subsist on a social security pension of $2.40 a day. Unemployment is increasing, the housing shortage has worsened for low-income families, and prices have risen 13% in the past two years. For millions, such gross inequalities seem...
...some great moments do break through: the audience that walks out; the hilarious surprise duet with Buster Keaton at the piano and Chaplin peering over a tall starched collar and playing the violin. More common, and more painful, though, are the promising fragments and glances that are refused their chance to build up any impact, or are undercut by the dialogue of a film in which Chaplin denies the elementals...