Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just as WSB had predicted, as A.F.L. seamen walked off the picket lines, N.M.U. seamen-who had honored the A.F.L. strike-rushed in. A.F.L. yelled wrathfully and in some cases A.F.L. longshoremen crossed the rival lines. But Joe Curran's N.M.U., repudiating its two-month-old contract, understandably demanded just as much as A.F.L...
...herself in a cottage in a canyon. The canyon had been bad. "I was alone," she explained. "I was terrified. But I just pretended I wasn't there. ..." The white-haired Queen Dowager of the Royal Family denied a report that she had signed a seven-year movie contract. "I wouldn't sign a seven-year contract with God," she exclaimed in her famed rich Barrytone. "No-you'd better make that 'only with God.' ... At my age it would be ridiculous...
When the American Newspaper Guild met in Scranton last June, it served notice that all new contracts must provide a $100 weekly top-minimum for reporters (Herald & Expressmen now get $70*), $50 for employes in other departments. That meant that the Herald & Express would have to shell out a 40% pay boost. To Hearst's 10% offer, the Guild said "no contract-no work," claimed that management's suspension of publication amounted to a lockout. Replied the Herald: "A mass walkout prevents publication. It is not a lockout." At week's end Federal Conciliator Harry C. Malcom...
...Church considers the previous marriage no true marriage. The impediments: consanguinity; mistaken identity; mental deficiency "sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice"; insanity; failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; impotence; perversion or venereal disease undisclosed to the other party; bigamy; a concurrent contract inconsistent with canonical marriage (such as a "companionate marriage" agreement); fraud; coercion; duress "or such defects of the personality as to make competent or free consent impossible...
...lower parts of their bodies. "When you do a sudden steep turn, you are punched severely in the belly as the abdominal bladder inflates and the laces tighten around your legs. The centrifugal forces of a 500-mile-an-hour turn increase your weight seven to ten times. You contract your stomach, breathe in gasps...