Word: employs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their families silently marched in protest, bearing black flags and signs pleading for government action to save their jobs. Their protest was too late. Last week the German coal industry announced plans to close down 36 mines that produce a quarter of West Germany's coal and employ more than 60,000 miners, fully 17% of the industry's working force. At the Amalie mine in Essen, center of the industrial Ruhr, dust-covered workers were handed "death warrants" as they emerged from the mines, and went off to brood over their beer...
Last Exit is a series of six stories, loosely linked by shared characters and unremitting violence, to make up a novel about the waterfront slums of Brooklyn. In this book all the ordinary four-letter words are for the little children, while grownups employ a more esoteric vocabulary where drag means transvestite clothing, silks are women's underpants worn by men, a John is a male prostitute's male customer, and rough-trade is that same prostitute's brutal boy friend...
...spirit of the meeting, students began asking specific questions about the Coop's pricing policy. Morrill announced that "the Coop will not be undersold..." After the laughter died down, he continued, "...to its knowledge." He supported this statement by commenting that although the Coop does not employ a force of comparison shoppers, any substantial complaint would result in an immediate reduction in prices...
...only increase the number of well-qualified women teachers," she asserted, "there are enough colleges that will employ them in good positions." Even now, institutions that are reluctant to hire women are showing occasional signs of relenting, she added...
Paper Ambush. The incident ended a truce between politicians and the royal family imposed by the death of King Paul last March, the Cyprus crisis, and the wedding. The next shot, aimed directly at Queen Mother Frederika, was fired last week from the ambush Athenian politicians typically employ: the rumor columns of the newspapers. A pro-Papandreou newspaper reported it had "learned" from government sources that the widowed Queen Mother had agreed to leave Greece and retire to an estate in Austria in return for a large pension from the government. Other papers quickly joined in to embroider the indelicate...