Word: flexing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dockers. Their demand was that the task of packing shipping containers at the firm should be turned over to registered dock workers. The trouble began when the dockers, defying a "truce" ordered by the new labor court, began to boycott trucks supplying the firm. When the court decided to flex its muscles and send five of the offending dockers to Pentonville, labor decided to flex...
...didn't know that." She also discovered that Georgia's old guard was more flex ible than she had thought. "At first they were skeptical about the young dele gates. They thought we were in it for a lark. Now they take us more seriously. There's been a change...
...whole film in what seems to be a mild state of concussion, as if he'd been roughed up in a scrimmage. Williamson and Johnson were apparently recruited not only for their athletic prowess but for their pectorals. Both are frequently required to shed their shirts and flex their chests. This provokes lustful cooings from any black women in the vicinity as well as envy and wrath from Whitey, who is generally a scrawny racist with a telltale gleam of madness...
Describing his government as a "week-old baby that is beginning to flex its muscles," Acheampong spoke almost plaintively about the problems ahead. "Yes," he sighed, "I know it's going to be a herculean job against fearful odds, but with the help of Almighty God, I will prevail." As he rightly suggested, he is going to need all the help...
Some people come with acting, directing or technical experience, but House drama is as important for the opportunities it provides many students for taking a first plunge into the theatre as it is for the chance to flex already developing dramatic muscle...