Word: heart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reuther's heart was clearly not in his work. With new contract negotiations coming up within a week, he would have preferred to save the strike weapon to push through the union's 1949 demands for wage increases, pensions, and a health program. His hand had been forced by the tough, Communist-led faction in U.A.W.'s huge, 59,000-member Rouge Local 600, which had snowballed the speed-up into a major issue of union politics...
...innocent thing. We never advocated or taught . . . overthrow of the Government by force or violence at all. All we wanted to do was to bring about certain salutary social reforms, and to do it by a perfectly legitimate party . . . ' That, as I see it, goes right to the heart of the matter...
Beautiful Georgette Leblanc, an opera singer who claimed to have fallen in love with his poems when she was only 16, placed her heart at his feet. They set up joint housekeeping and a salon sparkling with the brightest names...
...metropolis itself girded for siege. Along Nanking Road, through Shanghai's heart, khaki-clad troops put up wires for military phones. At the Central Police Station black-clad police cracked down on Red underground agents and others charged with troublemaking. Gaping crowds gathered to watch Shanghai's tumbrils rumble past. On a typical day, in the yellow brick courtyard of the police station, swift sentence of death by shooting was meted out to three prisoners for plotting to overthrow the government. One was Wu Shih-wen, 36, from far-off Manchuria. According to custom, Wu knelt to write...
...Andean altiplano, Bolivia's two-year-old democracy fought for breath to live. President Enrique Hertzog, a doctor experienced in pulmonary problems, had pulled his patient through five states of siege. Last week a fresh complication set in. The doctor himself, worn out and suffering from kidney and heart trouble, took a leave of absence...