Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spokesmen for Big Steel and the United Steelworkers of America settled down to grim negotiations on a new contract in Manhattan last week (see BUSINESS), the President of the U.S. announced that he was looking on-and invited his 175 million fellow citizens to look with him. Dwight Eisenhower plainly wanted no settlement that would result in higher steel prices and another wave of inflation. And in saying so he came closer than ever before to transgressing his own stern rule against mixing in the private affairs of business and labor...
...Democrats (see chart), a Republican Catholic candidate might lure one out of every seven Democratic voters to his cause. Unsurprisingly, nearly all Catholics (95%) said they would vote for a candidate who shared their politics as well as their religion. The insignificant 2% who would not vote for a fellow Catholic of the same political persuasion were afraid of upsetting Protestant-Catholic relations...
...deducting from the totals those voters who say they will oppose a Catholic under any circumstances, Gallup evened the odds: Kennedy, 50%; Nixon, 50%. But he had a final word of statistical encouragement for Kennedy: if Kennedy counts those Republican Catholics who would jump fences to vote for a fellow Catholic, he could hope for a narrow popular tally: Kennedy, 53%; Nixon...
Desk Work at Night. Arkansan Quarles studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Yale ('16) and Columbia, once played guitar in the band of Bazooka Man Bob Burns, a Van Buren fellow townsman. Quarles spent 34 years with Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Western Electric Co., helped develop World War II's radar. Eventually, as president of Western Electric's subsidiary
...fellow lights up another cigarette and takes a deep puff, as if giving to understand that the question has been settled...