Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violence. Under the terms of a three-year contract, the stores agreed to an overall 8½? wage boost (to $2.21 an hour for drivers, $1.94 for helpers) plus some fringe benefits. In return the Teamsters gave up a pair of choice featherbedding privileges: for the first time in eighteen years, the stores can use parcel post to deliver packages of 8 oz. or less, and management, not the union, will now decide when to put helpers on delivery trucks...
...Eighteen teams entered the contest, including M.I.T., U. of Vermont, Georgetown, Smith, B.U., Brooklyn College, and Wellesley...
...surprise of just about everyone (including, it seemed, Eden himself), the Queen thus conferred the highest honor a British politician can hold and yet remain in the House of Commons on the man who stands ready to succeed Sir Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. Eighteen months ago the Queen had bestowed the same honor on Sir Winston...
...deepest truths about middle-class life: "Respectability, far from being a dull and quiet virtue, was like walking a tightrope." And in The Mad Lomasneys, an older man invites the fury of his girl by denying she knows anything about love. Says O'Connor: "At the age of eighteen to be told that there is anything you don't know about love is like a knife in your heart.'' More Stones slows down ordinary life-which could be anywhere -for a good look at it; the Irish accent is merely the pleasantly accidental result...
...good towns people of Hanover decided to impose a residence tax on the Dartmouth men who lived there nine months each year. The Dartmouth men responded by turning out en masse to a town meeting, waving signs of "Taxation Without Representation." Overwhelmingly, they voted that the town erect an eighteen-story city hall, one-foot square...