Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four, the government claimed, were members of the Soviet intelligence organization, and had helped the country's Communist Party gain control of Uruguay's major student and labor groups. Once in control, the Reds had triggered a series of costly and bloody strikes. Last week, after gas, construction and packinghouse workers threatened a whole new round of strikes, the National Council decided that enough was enough and ordered the expulsion...
...impoverished scissor sharpener, she was born in Budapest, became a prodigy at six, taught adult students at eight, became a full-fledged soloist at 20. In 1940, while on a concert tour of Java, she was stranded by the war and eventually placed in a Japanese forced-labor camp. Denied access to a piano for most of the three years of her imprisonment, she "continued to play organically," deciding that "either I go to the dogs or I make the experience the treasure fund of my life by falling back wholly on that which is within myself...
...thing, even though the networks are steadily building up their reportorial staffs, they still have too few men in the field. In Washington, a correspondent may cover Capitol Hill one day, the Labor Department the next; on the following day a story may take him out of town. He has little time to develop expertise in any one area...
Wall Street's dominant bears have greatly accelerated their short-selling. They are obviously hedging against any and every dire possibility - higher taxes, tighter money, rougher inflation. Though the U.S. Labor Department reported last week that wholesale prices stayed stable in September for the first time in six months, most economists still expect prices to inflate in the months ahead. The bears predict that earnings after taxes will drop next year...
...Winchell publicized the joint, Brenda Frazier brought her friends, Ethel Merman came with the show folks (and got a diamond bracelet inscribed "From Sherm to Merm"); pretty girls, famous or not, got gifts of perfume, gold Stork keys, jeweled compacts. In the '50s, arrogance at the door and labor troubles in the kitchen signaled the end that the discotheques finally accomplished...