Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your London correspondent has wronged Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, and local pride. You give him either a cockney or a North Midlands accent when you make him say: "Just fancy 'avin' John L. Lewis comin' over here and tellin' us 'ow to do our bloody jobs. I'd say to 'im, 'When you take our two-foot-nine seams and give us your eight-foot seams, we might listen to yer' " [TIME...
...After three days of no word I had about given him up, figuring that either he was being watched too closely to risk doing anything or that he felt I was being shadowed. The four of us on hand to cover the inauguration (A.P.'s Joe McAvoy, U.P.'s Thomas R. Curran, New York Times's Milton Bracker) knew that at least one of us was being carefully checked...
...before the convention was over, the Reds showed at least one sign of growing weakness. Though they rammed through resolutions opposing the election of either Harry Truman or Tom Dewey, they stopped short of a formal pledge to Henry Wallace. Explained President Albert Fitzgerald frankly: "No presidential candidate we could endorse here today could have any other effect than to split the organization wide open...
...whirls of dust from the sandy earth and the odor of cheap tobacco. A seven-year-old girl whimpered against her father's shoulder. He muttered to someone near him: "Why shouldn't she be here? These are historic hours. We're going to see freedom either reborn or reburied...
With no more success, the Commies tried to attack the Labor government's plan for freezing wages (nonCommunist workers don't like it either, but they would brook no Red assault...