Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must become politically more conscious. We must take our politics more seriously. If we throw our full energies into political organization and activity, the Communists will be impotent in our affairs. They could not then win by default; and it is only by default that they can gain a strategic hold on important groups in this country...
...hour raise with an answer the union could only consider a countercheck quarrelsome-a proposal that Ford workers take a cut instead. Said Ford Vice President John S. Bugas: "We think the American people are tired of negotiations which seem to have no other aim besides gain for all parties except the consumers." Ken Bannon, U.A.W. Ford director, retorted: if the company would exert its influence with industry and Congress "to effect a substantial rollback in the cost of living," the union "will be happy" to withdraw its demands...
Party offers Britons "the opportunity to share in a great common purpose, sought with a sense of universal comradeship, in contrast with the Conservative aim of competitive striving for personal gain...
...family, the Ezras. As such she tends flowers, serves tea, and prepares the bed of her "young master," David Ezra. It will surprise no reader to learn that behind Peony's ornamental exterior beats the passionate heart of a woman wildly in love with David. How can she gain his favor? That she can never be his wife Chinese custom dictates; that she can ever be his concubine Jewish law forbids. Peony decides that she must divert David from Leah, the Jewish girl "fairer than any lily," whom Madame Ezra wishes him to marry, and steer him to Kueilan...
...speech took Bishop Oxnam, standing short and solid on the stage of huge, dismal Mechanics Building, two hours to read. He reviewed Methodist gains since the General Conference of 1944 ($27,011,243 raised for world relief and reconstruction; a record one-year gain of 1,063,734 new members). He restated the traditional Methodist stand against "the liquor traffic" and its "advertisements that seek to associate whiskey with success rather than with the gutter." He deplored the growing tendency of Methodist-founded universities and other institutions to break away from their church affiliation. Then he came to the main...