Word: herding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial unions, but there were still plenty of unbranded mavericks on the range. James Hoffa, chief of Michigan's 13,000 A.F.L. teamsters, prepared a new corral: a local of the teamsters' subsidiary Retail Clerks' Union. Then, walking softly, he set out to round up a herd whose grazing habits he had been studying all during the war-Detroit's 6,400 small, independent grocers, meat dealers and their clerks...
Almost immediately a startled bawling began. Merchants who went to packing houses and wholesale establishments for meat and produce were suddenly asked to pay a $5 initiation fee or get no goods. Gradually the whole herd became restive. Hoffa outlined his strategy candidly. If merchants and their employes did not join the union within 30 days, they would be cut off from their supplies. If wholesalers attempted to succor them, they too would...
...Buttonhook. But the visiting salesmen and neighbors were some compensation. There was the local abortionist who came up when news of Author MacDonald's being " 'that way' went the rounds of the mountains and valleys along with the news about the contagious abortion in the Helwig herd of Jerseys and the impotency of the Green bull." " 'Drop up some evening with six dollars,'" said the abortionist, " 'and I'll fix you good as new. . . . Took care of Mrs. Smith when she was six months along and got rid of three...
...fifth floor, combatants were shepherded into a long, wide column. Thirty store detectives patrolled its edges, like cow hands riding herd on the old Chisholm Trail, eyes alert for mavericks. The column wound through vistas of antique furniture and past paintings of cows grazing in sylvan scenes. Once customers sighted the nylon counters, they found themselves in a maze of waist-high fences. To get out they had to make nine turns, pass through ten narrow aisles...
...ruined streets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now filled with Japs who have small tufts of hair beginning to grow back on their slick pates. Temporary baldness is one symptom of radiation injury. A variation of the injury was discovered among a herd of red cattle grazing some 50 miles from last summer's test bombing in New Mexico. Radioactive dust settled on their backs, turned the red hair white in small splotches...