Word: feathering
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...gained no extra production. But two weeks ago the 400 Dodge body workers decided they wanted the relief period even without the speedup, walked out, later added a demand for more manpower on the same job. Said Chrysler Vice President John D. Leary: "This is simply a demand for feather-bedding...
...Nixon has never shown a white feather concerning Communism. The smearing cartoons by the Washington Post's Herblock and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Mauldin must have caused their editors to give them a "shower" of red stars. It would be appropriate if these cartoonists signed their names in red ink. ANNA MAE G. COUMBOURAS Springfield, Mass...
...angered by an intricate financial deal in which he felt he was being cheated by the French government, Khoja Hussein, the last Dey of Algiers, called in French Consul Pierre Deval, charged him with being a "wicked, faithless, idol-worshiping unworthy," and struck him three times with a peacock-feather fly whisk. After brooding over this outrage for three years, France finally saw it as an opportunity, sent General Louis de Bourmont and 37,000 men sailing south from Toulon. Within three weeks of their landing, De Bourmont's troops paraded in triumph through Algiers to the strains...
With Lynn Fontanne in the title role, the play ran on Broadway for months, and "Dulcy" became a household word. But tastes and standards change, and the play today is little more than a feather-weight farce and a historical curiosity...
...Colorado's Rocky Mountain brooks. Restlessly, he watched sunlight sparkle on fish hauled into nearby boats, then cracked orders by radiotelephone for his escort craft, full of ever-hovering Secret Service, to find out what bait the others were using. A neighboring cruiser shared its successful white feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point, using a nickel-plated spoon, he hooked a single 20-in., 4-lb. bonito, hardly worth...