Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taking a sociology junior tutorial and studying about the working class-studies that the feels might help him to cover, for example, professional bowling and "understand the stresses and strains of these athletes who consider themselves like blue-collar factory workers and are parely breaking even on the tour...
WHEN SWINGTIME SWEETIE Billy Crocker sings the praises of nightclub knockout Reno Sweeney, he lovingly croons "You're the National Gallery, you're Garbo's salary, you're Chippendale." Not to be outdone, Reno hails Billy as equal in stature to a silver dollar, an Arrow collar--even "cellophane...
...Memphis Press-Scimitar (as in sword) folded on Halloween. It was known as a blue-collar paper. The next morning, the Commercial Appeal, which is not known as a blue-collar paper, announced that among the many changes to come, the newspaper would be made "easier to read." To boot, a full one-fourth of the front page was occupied by a color photograph of a black man picking cotton, a quaint idea in an enormous amount of space. Alas, it seemed, a newspaper had finally reached a par with television: it had managed to torment one's intelligence...
...seven-man board of directors (the third is deceased). The firm's unusual breadth of research activity and symbiotic relationship with Cambridge's academic world make it a sanctuary for researchers in fields from the arts to pure physical sciences and perhaps a prototype for the "silver collar" companies of the future...
...many helmets and shoulder pads we wear to disguise it. Perhaps more disconcerting, though, is the cultural situation that has given rise to such an unwholesome condition. In Tom Cruise's new movie All the Right Moves-- the story of a hypothetical high school football team in a blue collar Pennsylvania milltown--the coach reminds the players that they are nothing but "Dagos, Polacks and Spicks." and that they'll only be able to get a scholar ship to college by eating dirt and "kicking the other team...