Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reuther recalled the things he had told his wife in the moments after he was shot. "I told her we knew a long time ago that the labor movement is no bed of roses, and that we had to expect something like this. I told her that I wanted her to promise she'd stay in this fight if they really had finished me. She agreed, and after that I felt all right...
...prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." * Defenders forced down one plane the first day, a British-made Spitfire. Its youthful Egyptian pilot was overjoyed to find that he was not to be subjected to torture, which he had been told to expect...
Even Mr. Mack admits that his team has had some breaks: "The pitching against us has not been so good. We have gotten more bases on balls than we had a right to expect." He was finding winning so much fun that he had spurned an offer of $100,000 for Pitcher Marchildon. And people might find it hard to believe, but Mr. Mack was actually trying to buy an outfielder for $50,000 cash...
...fond of politicians of any variety), peace and the plight of the poor taxpayer. The rest of the time he worries about horses. On almost any good afternoon Duffy can be found at the track. As long as they're running at Pimlico, Baltimore does not expect to lose Duffy for good...
...beyond any laborman's reproach. Its members were fair-minded men, experienced mediators: Dr. William Leiserson, visiting professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins University; Professor William Willard Wirtz of Northwestern University Law School; Chief Justice George Edward Bushness of the Michigan supreme court. It was reasonable to expect that they would give all sides a fair hearing. They took 33 volumes of testimony. Then they recommended some rules changes and the same 15½? increase already accepted by the 19 other brotherhoods. Management accepted. The three brotherhoods defiantly blew the strike whistle...