Word: joint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kings issued a joint statement in the same vein: no compromise. But on the next leg of his journey, to visit his nephew Regent Abdul Illah of Iraq, Abdullah dropped a hint to the Arab press to stop the chest-thumping which makes compromise impossible. Said Abdullah: "The significant feature of the situation is not so much a matter of the Arab states being against the Jews but rather against the supporters of world Jewry in the international sphere. Therefore, I wish to advise the Arab press not to be too optimistic . . . not too pessimistic...
...four candidates held several joint debates. But Margaret Smith carried her campaign to places where a house with a shed is called a village. Whenever she could get away from Washington, she hustled back to Maine. Booted & bemittened, on days when the fog was so thick a man could hardly spit, on days when the natives allowed "it wuz cold enough to freeze two dry rags together," she made the rounds of the state. In Bangor, she fell and broke her arm, stubbornly insisted on keeping a speaking date four hours later...
...another interdenominational group had met in Stockholm under the leadership of Archbishop Nathan Söderblom, Primate of Sweden, to discuss the social, economic and political ills that plague humanity. Both groups called their next meetings in the same year-1937. Then both conferences voted to set up a joint body, to be called the World Council of Churches...
...fears mounted following the Red seizure of Czechoslovakia, President Truman went before a joint session of Congress, asked...
Under Luckman, Lever Bros, productivity has increased over 10%. Luckman gives much of the credit to suggestions from the workers themselves, under the worker-management "joint plant committees" he set up with his unions. Luckman himself is behind such morale-boosting devices as meals at cost (average price 37?), liberalized vacations (up to three weeks for ten years' service), insurance and pension systems, abolition of time-clock-punching for salaried workers...