Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boorish, crude, brilliant, ruthless, potentially rash, with a terrible inferiority complex." He would put on a "big macho act to prove that he was ahead of everybody and everything." Part of the act was his "air of being just a common, peasantlike person... with a sloppy hat and a collar that wouldn't be too clean...
...President was in fine, trust-winning form as he and his entourage descended on Newcastle. At the city's modern civic center, he was greeted by Lord Mayor Hugh White, splendidly turned out in scarlet robes with ermine collar and fringes. The Lord Mayor declared Carter to be an "Honorary Freeman" of Newcastle. Among the privileges that go with this ancient honor: permission to graze cattle on the city's moor...
...Alliance's rapid growth has resulted from its development of a broad base of support. Farmers, schoolteachers, doctors, housewives, students and blue-collar workers were among the 2000 "Clams" who occupied the Seabrook site on May Day weekend. Their ages ranged from the teens to past 70, with the average somewhere between 25 and 30. They came from all over New England and the United States. And they came prepared to go to prison for their beliefs. One leader said last week, "I've lived on the seacoast all my life, so I've been involved all my life...
...familiar Roman collar had been pulled off and hung up with the black jacket. It was well past midnight and Father Hesburgh was still working through the piles of mail in his old, highceilinged office. He routinely stays up until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning...
Coal mining is tough, dirty, two-fisted business--the most hazardous blue-collar job in the world. The heat that comes out of Boston's radiators and the light that comes from Boston's lamps is the direct product of the sweat of people in Harlan County, Kentucky, or somewhere else in the coalfields that stretch from south Pennsylvania and West Virginia to Alabama and west to Illinois. Once every three days, a man dies in the mines for someone else's heat and light, for someone else's steel...