Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wages ($42.50 a week), poor working conditions and compulsory overtime imposed on the predominantly Asian work force by Grunwick's Anglo-Indian managing director George Ward. With six other employees, Mrs. Desai joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX), a moderate, nonmilitant, white-collar trade union. In the next few days, more than 100 Grunwick employees joined APEX. Ward, who describes himself as "not antiunion, just nonunion," fired all the workers affiliated with APEX and refused to meet with the union's organizers...
Since accounting procedures are haphazard at best, a few Palestinians have succumbed to the tempting rewards of open-collar crime. Two months ago, three P.L.O. officials were tossed into a fedayeen jail for gambling away $250,000 of the organization's money at the gaming tables of Cairo. But as even critics of the P.L.O. concede, most of the Palestinian leaders emulate the ascetic style of Arafat who, despite international renown, dresses in baggy battle fatigues, operates out of a spartan office in a Beirut slum, and indulges in neither whisky, cigarettes nor women...
That pronouncement proved premature. In May, Houston police happened to collar one John Rothkopf, 58, a former business associate of Yarbrough, who had been a fugitive from charges that he and Yarbrough got $30,030 for a collection of rare coins that they had never delivered. Once in custody, Rothkopf began talking. He said that Yarbrough had supplied him with forged identity papers to help him hide out in Louisiana and Texas for two years. While he was a fugitive, Rothkopf claimed, he and Yarbrough had discussed assassinating other former Yarbrough business partners who were now cooperating with the police...
...there is-a medal, a gold collar, whatever-I'll raise the money...
Hailing themselves as "the silent majority," the demonstrators included blue-collar workers-utility employees, electricians, plumbers-and their families from throughout the Northeast. Some had spent up to twelve hours in chartered buses to attend the rally. They were greeted by New Hampshire's Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., who called them "beautiful" compared with "what I saw the first of May." The protest, organized by a pro-Seabrook group named the New Hampshire Voice of Energy, may be only the first in behalf of the facility. Vowed Daniel Tenchara, a 41-year-old pipefitter from Westport, Mass...