Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pinching stage and was really hurting. In Washington last week for a clandestine meeting with Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, John L. was in a sullen but athletic mood. For 45 minutes he led newsmen on a comic-opera chase through midtown Washington, waddling through side doors and around corners like an amateur Sydney Greenstreet, climbing in & out of taxicabs, bouncing up & down in elevators...
...situation seemed to be made to order for Beck. Like most employers, Boeing was not at all averse to his guarantees of iron union discipline and labor peace. Beck licked his chops and prepared to dump Boeing's 15,000 employees into the kettleful of fruit canners, clerks and dry cleaners whose dues were already pouring into the teamsters' treasury...
...have come down a long trail . . . We may stumble, but we will get up ... Raising India to its feet means hard work. Not so flashily dramatic, but quiet hard work. We may be on a mountaintop sometimes, and again in a valley below. This visit here is like a visit to the mountaintop, and I shall remember it when I am in the valley below...
...Vincoe Paxton helped slit the beasts' nostrils so that bleeding would keep their arteries from bursting. She swatted maggots from the festering wounds torn by saddle ropes on the animals' sides. Nausea, dizziness, frostbite and insomnia meanwhile began to affect the travelers themselves. "It made us feel like idiots," said Vincoe. In 18,600-foot Karakoram Pass, the sun burned their faces, and their tea froze before they could drink...
Broken Ice. Nationalists in Indonesia sputtered that they did not like the agreement which Van Royen and the Indonesian representatives had worked out (see below). Nevertheless, after four years of bitter fighting and endless negotiations, it looked as though Indonesia would get the freedom it fiercely wanted, and yet would retain some of the economic ties with The Netherlands which are necessary for the survival of both countries...