Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...anything I have seen here, this is a symbol of Berlin's victory. Despite kidnapings, despite the Communist propaganda barrage, despite intimidation, Berlin's people have remained calm and unruffled. An old man carefully tending his tiny potato patch in the Tiergarten pointed to one of the huge, blasted air raid shelters. He said: 'During the war every bunker in Berlin had the words painted near its entrance: Ruhe bewahren, nicht drängen!-keep quiet, don't push. Those words we shall never forget. They have served us well during this blockade.' "If ever...
...played the part of "Cold-in-the-Head." He took her home to the ancient Benedictine abbey near Rouen which he had bought as his residence. Eight years later, when Cold-in-the-Head was 27, the 57-year-old poet forsook Georgette and married her. They reconverted a huge gambling casino on a hillside overlooking Nice. There they settled down...
...violinists in the orchestra. After Fiedler graduated from Berlin's Royal Academy, and made his debut as a fiddler at 17, he took a seat with the Boston's strings himself. Soon after he took to the baton, he became too busy to fiddle. Part of the huge repertory he and the Pops have built up: 103 marches, 98 overtures, 115 suites, 81 piano concertos, 51 waltzes, 45 arrangements from musical comedies. Boston Pops recordings now fill more pages in RCA Victor's Red Seal catalogue (160 titles) than those of any other orchestra except the Philadelphia...
Professors Bart J. Bok and Harlow Shapley are trying to map this huge disc-shaped "island universe," which includes the earth and every star that the naked eye can see. Both of them are measuring the distance to far-away suns, to determine their relative positions in the galaxy and thus the shape of the galaxy itself...