Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failed to point out the mistakes of those above him. CBS tolerated him, but did not like him. He never got the inflated title he might have expected ?senior or executive vice president?and he was not on the limousine list. Says a friend: "Freddie's a blue-collar worker ?he actually reads scripts and watches shows?and he doesn't do things in the white-collar...
Family shows While The Waltons (CBS) fight off rural poverty in the South, The Fitzpatricks will soon battle the blue-collar blues up North. But not for long, most likely. The new CBS series about a struggling steelworker and his family looks like dim competition against ABC's Happy Days...
With that, attention shifted to a very different kind of conflict in the attractive, ordinarily tranquil Marquette Park area. Surrounding the park is a blue-collar ethnic neighborhood (Polish, Irish, Lithuanian) of shaded streets, neatly trimmed lawns and well-maintained bungalows, one of the last white enclaves in the city. Not coincidentally, it is also the site of the headquarters of Collin's Nazi party. Last summer, during a civil rights march there, 16 citizens and 16 police were injured in the ensuing riot. Lately crowds of up to 1,500 beer-swigging white youths have swarmed around...
...fight those rebels [the Smith regime]. Once we defeat them, that is the time for elections. The Patriotic Front is not a closed shop at all. Anybody who is prepared to face facts and fight now is welcome, whether he is a bishop or a reverend with a collar, as my father was. But whoever wants an election now is wrong...
...game. "Don't make me laugh," snapped Nkomo. "We mean to push that man out of power and we shall do it." Mugabe said that his guerrillas would fight anybody involved with Smith-regardless of the color of his skin and whether or not he wore a clerical collar. But even the "internal" and moderate black leaders resisted the Smith ploy. Muzorewa said ie was prepared to talk with Smith-but only if the negotiations were based on an immediate transition to black rule Muzorewa added that he did not expect to be taken up on his offer...