Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price upcreep, rank -and-file steelworkers were wary of following McDonald into a strike for higher wages. But when industry negotiators started talking about changing work rules, steelworkers began heeding his warnings that the bosses wanted to bring back the bad old days of "industrial dictatorship" and "assembly-line slaves...
...idle as millponds last week, immobilized by a sudden wildcat strike by the crime-ridden International Longshoremen's Association. Pickets in New York took a "coffee break" to let Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Vatican diplomat, make a hasty departure from the Vulcania without suffering the embarrassment of crossing their line. A troupe of Yemenite dancers walked ashore with their luggage on their heads, and pursers and stewards from the U.S.S. Constitution helped 983 home-coming travelers tote their baggage ashore. Perishable goods were in danger of rotting on the piers and in ships' holds, and U.S. grain exports...
...weeks they worked, drilling bolt holes in the patch, lowering it with winches. The divers, fighting the heavy ebb and flow of the sea, fastened the patch with bolts, some of them a foot long. Once a shark flashed toward Diver Maurice Simmons. "I kept yanking on the diving line and saying to myself, 'Oh, my God, won't they ever pull me up?' Then they started raising me, and all of a sudden the shark swam away. It took me about half a day before I could get up enough nerve to go back down again...
...bosses tore up honest production figures and conjured up new ones likely to please Peking. But by last October the Red leadership was beginning to realize that the only alternative to total collapse was relaxation. Meeting in the industrial center of Wuhan, Mao and his satraps decided on their line of retreat. The communes would remain, but they would be "tidied up." Peasants would be "entitled" to money wages and eight hours' sleep a night, were even told that "individual trees around their houses, small farm tools, small instruments and small domestic animals and poultry" would no longer...
Nothing But a Line. No less important was the fact that Peking's mulish behavior both at home and abroad had strained relations with its Soviet Big Brother. Devoutly Communist as Peking professes to be, there have always been tensions between Russia and Red China-a fact that emerges clearly from the comments of Russian technicians who have worked in China. "In little ways," says a Soviet chemist, "the Chinese showed us up, and sometimes behind our backs they called us Big Noses, as if we were no better than oldtime imperialists...