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Word: forded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remains shorthand for everything that is evil. Yet the most substantial victories won by unions at the bargaining table have come from the giants of industry. It was the United States Steel Corp. that gave unionism a bloodless foothold in the mass production industries 20 years ago. It was Ford and General Motors that capitulated to the "guaranteed annual wage." At every intermediate period since the New Deal, unions have relied on "Big Business" to set the pattern of labor gains. The result of cordial day-to-day relations over a long period is a dichotomy that translates out something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: *FOR LABOR: ONE TO GROW ON | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...movie makes a pleasant pretense of seeing America-by seeing American military government-as others see it. Along with the banalysis of democrazy, though, the authors have provided one of the most hilarious stripe teases of recent years. The big laugh is on Colonel Wainwright Purdy III (Paul Ford), who goes by the book (though he usually reads it upside down). "They're gonna learn democracy if I've gotta shoot every one of them," the colonel roars at Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford) as he bids the captain Godspeed to the village of Tobiki on Okinawa, where Fisby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...short, the only important difference between the play and the picture is its cast. Paul Ford, as the colonel, is the only carryover, and in closeup he seems even more a master of the cruder kinds of deadpantomime. Glenn Ford is amiable as young Captain Fisby; Machiko Kyo, one of the most gifted of Japanese cinemac tresses, is pleasantly giggly in a part that scarcely taxes her abilities. As Sakini, Marlon Brando seems to proclaim with every gesture that his talent is too big for his coolie britches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Stephen C. Clapp '60, and Edwin F. Ford '60, have attempted to lengthen their study hours by sleeping six hours per day in three two-hours naps, usually from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Test Staggered Sleep System | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Today, however, there are eight endowed chairs for university professors--three of them vacant at this moment. And the whole concept has proved so successful that just last summer President Pusey announced two new professorships--the Ford and Lowell chairs--to fulfill the same purpose as the university professorships on the college level...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: 'Men Working on the Frontiers of Knowledge' | 12/7/1956 | See Source »

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