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...meeting of the New York Times unit of the Communist Party, he was shocked to find himself the only member of the editorial department, although there were half a dozen other Times employees there. A year later Freeman broke with the Communists, because party-line discussions proved "dull and fruitless," and activities "inept and futile." After his full and frank testimony, the Times kept Freeman...
...hour this year, 8? more in 1956, 8? more in 1957, plus a pension plan that truckers would finance at 10? an hour. Unexpressed was the union's plan to negotiate a master agreement to cover all trucking in the West. After three months of fruitless negotiations, the teamsters struck three big truckers (Pacific Intermountain Express, Consolidated Freightways, Pacific Motor Trucking...
...fruitless to speculate on Russia's future," he said after his talk, "because we just don't know enough. The chief characteristic of Soviet Russia seems to be instability, even for the privileged manager classes, but one can only guess how it will...
...overtime was marked with fast skating but fruitless play for both teams...
...slender and their feet of modest dimensions, whereas [the businessman's] calves are fat." The courting gentleman was also faced with courtly dilemmas. Asked, for example, which half of his lady he would prefer to have if she were divided in two at the waist, it is fruitless to plump piously for the top half (in hope of being rewarded with the lower) because the lady would only point out coldly "that the foundations of a building are more important than the upper storeys"-and leave him with no comeback but to mumble that "trees are praised for their...