Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Transport Workers Union, representing mechanics and other ground service workers at American had called a strike for 12:01 a.m. last Thursday. By creating the panel, Johnson made it illegal for the union to strike until a 60-day cooling-off period expires...
...sole trier of facts in the case before him, Judge Greene said that he could not weigh the defendants' conduct without knowing the national standards by which he was to measure it. After two weeks to research the question, the prosecutor refused to answer on the ground that national standards should be determined by the judge himself, as a representative of the community...
...engine would have arrived if it had not been blocked. In New Hampshire, a boy once tumbled off a high bridge and started falling to almost certain death or serious injury far below. On the way, he struck some high-tension wires, and was electrocuted before he hit the ground. After long pondering, the court held the utility company liable for damages-but only for the almost minuscule sum that the boy's life and health were worth when he hit the wires. Of such subtle compromises is negligence law made and ever remade...
Hallmark of Humor. In attempting to measure the ground between 50 and 20, Adlai Stevenson once put it this way to the students of Princeton: "What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions-a knowledge not gained by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love-the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little...
Spiked Worms. The unlikely spawning ground for this thriving enterprise is an Axelrod-designed three-story building in industrial Jersey City, not far from the polluted waters of upper New York Bay. It houses the presses of Axelrod's T.F.H. Publications, named for Tropical Fish Hobbyist, a monthly magazine (circ. 130,000) that Axelrod launched when he was a 25-year-old New York University graduate student. Since then, T.F.H. has turned out more than 460 books and pamphlets on fish-along with dozens of popular treatises on the care and upbringing of dogs, cats and birds...