Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midwest in the '90s. Manning's party has won four straight elections and has all but blotted out the opposition in the legislature. "We don't need an opposition," Ernest Manning has said. "They're just a hindrance to us. You don't hire a man to do a job and then hire another man to hinder...
...your money but your soul . . , Look in my eyes and recognize Whom - Fool! you chose to hire...
...example, it had $257,250,000 to pay out in rewards to farmers for making soil improvements alone. This fiscal year, said the report, could be even more bountiful. The report blithely suggested that the Department of Agriculture 1) spend more money this year on research, 2) hire more people, 3) look into such possibilities as acquiring and distributing land for bargain sale to farmers who want...
Pointing out that the number of State Department employees had increased about 350% since 1942, Senator Paul Douglas called for a payroll slash. Said he: "When they deal with a problem, they feel the way to meet it is to hire a large number of people ... If three men are needed to do a certain job, they hire twelve to 15. They spend a large portion of their time communicating with each other . . . until finally the chief work of the State Department consists in its members talking to one another...
...home of fine Havana tobaccos, Hill is not honored. There is nothing in the world, say the Cubans, like the coronas, perfectos and panatelas rolled by the torcedores of their capital city, men who have inherited jobs and skills from fathers and grandfathers, and who hire "readers" to sit in their midst and recite CalderÓn, Cervantes and Marx to them as they work...