Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alleged discrimination against union members in rehiring, after the seasonal layoff for new models. The plant normally employs only 600 men at this time of year, was making only 60 cars per day before the strike. And in spite of mass picketing by 500 other C.I.O. unionists, the assembly line continued to roll, though at considerably reduced speed. The significant automobile labor news of the week was made not in St. Louis,, not in any motor plant but in the minds of U. A. W. leaders in and around Detroit...
...willing to put his name to the flat statement that the "Unity" campaign against Homer Martin was "directed from the New York headquarters of the Communist Party and put into motion here through the party's representatives, in association with those who follow the party's 'line.' " Spearhead of the Unity group is Wyndham Mortimer, who neither admits nor denies that he is a Communist but who is known to cleave to the "party line." An oldtime United Mine Worker, Wyndham Mortimer used to be favored by John L. Lewis over Homer Martin...
...attractiveness of this line of solution to the crisis caused by German expansion hides the great difficulties of the scheme. The first obstacle to the plan is the natural unwillingness of the Colonial Powers in individuo to give up land to Germany. Japan, Australia, Belgium, and the British Admiralty have already expressed sharp opinions on this point. A more fundamental obstacle is the doubt whether Germany's ambitions, which are predominantly for Teutonic unity and supremacy in Eastern Europe, can be permanently satisfied by stretches of jungle. In Mein Kampf Hitler puts his colonial aims as a poor second...
...Football was simpler, but tougher, in my time," Campbell stated. "We couldn't throw forwards, and didn't Garo use laterals. Straight line plays were the whole story. And when you got hurt, you either kept on playing, or the team had to get along without...
...those seats," he sighed, "and right on the 50-yard line...