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Word: courtly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sorry, but I'm not serving trade unionists today." At the Dog and Partridge pub in Bury St. Edmunds, the owner's wife refused to serve lunch to two senior officers of the National Union of Public Employees. United Biscuits, a maker of cookies, persuaded a high court judge to issue an injunction against picketing truckers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Collapse of a Social Contract' | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...sweeping class action filed in the Washington, B.C., Federal District Court, Sears blamed the Government for whatever employment unbalances exist in the retail industry. The suit, prepared by veteran Civil Rights Attorney Charles Morgan Jr., charges that the Justice Department, the Labor Department, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and seven agencies have built up an absurd number of conflicting goals for different minorities. Sears maintains that it is not company employment practices that have held back integration but the Government's failure to press vigorously for equality in housing, education and craft training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Sears Suit | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

Desaulniers will abandon the squash court in favor of the operating table on Monday, but not before he plays Princeton's Frank Brosens in today's crucial contest. Navy's Carlson defeated Tiger captain Brosens earlier this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Submarine Middies, 9-0 | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...Soviet People's Court convicted Nudel and Vladimir Slepak last June of one count each of "malicious hooliganism" for hanging posters demanding permission to emigrate to Israel in the windows of their Moscow apartments. Nudel is known as the "guardian angel" of Soviet Jewish dissidents for her help to prisoners in Soviet labor camps, Artz said...

Author: By Steven J. Sampson, | Title: Law Student Asks Soviets To Free Exiled Dissident | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...city will take Morrison-Knudsen to court and shut off its water supply if the company attempts to set up temporary facilities, Sullivan added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MBTA | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

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