Word: fitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington only one day a week, the group has operated with an unorthodox autonomy that has ruffled some Pay Board bureaucrats and pooh-bahs from nonconstruction unions. Yet after 20 months of free-form negotiations, Committee Chairman John Dunlop, a Harvard dean who talks more like a pipe fitter than a pedagogue, can justifiably say of the nation's oldest wage-control apparatus: "We've done a lot better than I thought we would or most other people thought we would...
...good, open, scrappy game," Hanna said. "The Harvard pack was lighter and nippier than us, but our pack won most of the scrums. Harvard did better in the rucks because their forwards were fitter, faster, and quicker on the ball...
Finally, Novelist Philip Roth (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint) has written Our Gang, due out in November, starring President Trick E. Dixon, his wife Fitter, Attorney General Malicious, Vice President What's-his-name and others, including Jacqueline Charisma Colossus. In Roth's manically scurrilous satire, Dixon stealthily retires to a bombproof White House locker room during a national crisis and suits up in his "Prissier College" football uniform to bolster his confidence. At times, the mimicry of Nixon's manner and cadences is brilliant. Alternating between the Swiftian and the sophomoric, Roth has Dixon assassinated...
Lottery Ticket. Until the very moment of his fall, Nikita Khrushchev was noted for similarly compelling powers of persuasion-and political survival. The son of a peasant farmer in the Ukraine, he worked as a shepherd, steam fitter and coal miner. In 1918 he joined the Red Army, quickly becoming a political commissar. As a delegate to the 14th Party Congress in 1925, he skipped breakfast every morning so he could get a front seat near Stalin...
...relatively few people whose trust he slowly gains, and whose small devices for enduring life decently, no matter what, he deeply admires. In this book, for instance, Coles condenses talk and comment, going back as much as five years, with a handful of workingmen and their wives-a steam fitter, a policeman, a filling-station operator, a machinist, a fireman, a welder, a druggist and a bank-loan arranger, the only white-collar man in the group...