Word: herons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dennis quickly learned the new doctrine and stared into the tunnel now yawning before him. Who would be chosen for Browder's job? There were some fairly smart men around headquarters: Jack Stachel, a little man with the face of a heron who had been in & out of the underground; cold, Kewpie-like John Williamson, national labor secretary. But Moscow's hand fell on the shoulder of U.S.-born Eugene Dennis...
...chiefly responsible for the company's notable record is Alexander R. Heron, Crown Zellerbach's thin, scholarly vice president and industrial relations chief, consulting professor of industrial relations at Stanford University. In a recent book, Why Men Work (Stanford University Press; $2.75), the latest choice of the Executive Book Club, Heron explained the program's philosophy. Said Heron: U.S. workers no longer work primarily for food and shelter. "The most potent reason why we work at physical jobs ... is a spiritual force ... the urge in man to realize and express himself as a person." Management, said Heron...
Strolling along on the banks of the Nile, he came across a water carrier consuming the remains of a large Ibis, a North African heron who sports a magnificent bone. A crocodile had beaten the fellahin to the Ibis feast, and the native was about to attack the remains with a large knife, when Rothenberg stayed his hand with "fellow, spare that bone...
...heron is a heron is a heron is an auk," said the eminent expert on aves, and even birds ought to know it. This sort of cheap attempt at evading truth blackens the name of ornithology and must be condemned by all responsible and intelligent people, students and faculty alike...
...away with Loyola University's first turtle derby. He was bought in a fish market a month ago, and trained by pre-med students, who used Pavlov's theory of the conditioned reflex. Main feature: the "gait-straightener"-a practice track with a picture of a heron on one side, a pike on the other (both are natural enemies of the turtle...