Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threatening to desert to the G.O.P., and the Republicans are doing everything possible to make them feel at home. The so-called white ethnics, largely Catholic voters, have been pleased by Nixon's opposition to abortion and his support of aid to parochial schools. The blue-collar voter has been treated to a variety of favors. The New York City construction unions have been placated by an easing of the demand that they hire more members of minority groups. Transportation workers are happy that the President has stopped pushing a bill that would submit crippling strikes to compulsory arbitration...
...Athlete (Hospes strenuous). As the calendar winds down to Labor Day, he (or she) coaxes colleagues away from a leisurely meal, hauls them up from blankets in the sun and hammocks in the shade-all in the name of Sport. For the victim, no pest coil or 90-day collar will serve as repellent. No, the only proven method of defense is Summer Gamesmanship...
...largely blue-collar fraternal organization boasting some 900,000 members, the Loyal Order of Moose was founded in 1888 in Kentucky and now has its headquarters, called the Supreme Lodge of the World, at Mooseheart, Ill., 38 miles west of Chicago. The Moose pay between $15 and $25 a year for the right to congregate at local lodges and for an unusual brand of social security: their families are eligible, in case of need, for an orphanage and school complex in Mooseheart, and upon retirement they can go to a Florida rest home called Moosehaven...
Almost breaking even on its $200 million investment in the Philadelphia International Airport and the North Philadelphia Airport, the city last spring was planning a $250 million expansion of the terminals by 1975. Mayor Frank Rizzo did not think that the financial burden should fall on blue-collar and other less-moneyed Philadelphians who hardly ever take a plane anyway. The city hit on the idea of imposing a $2-per-passenger charge for anyone flying into or out of Philadelphia...
...retaining Agnew. George McGovern so offends most conservatives of both parties that they would likely have voted for Nixon even if Agnew had been dropped; now Nixon will surely lose some moderate voters who cannot stomach Agnew. His only vote-getting advantage may be among the restive blue-collar workers who could abandon their allegiance to the Democrats...