Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a new dock strike, conservative Prime Minister Sidney Holland decided he would not permit the Communists to use democracy in order to destroy it. He announced a state of national emergency, declared the Waterside Workers an illegal organization, seized its funds. Soldiers, sailors and airmen were ordered to load ships...
...balance. Then, instead of the treatment making the patient normal, he will be forced to adjust himself to the treatment. Says Dr. Means: "The situation may be likened to that in which one tries to bring to even keel a boat with a list to starboard by putting a load to port. Perhaps the boat is righted, but ... if the load imposed is too heavy, the boat may sink! I believe that is what will happen with . . . ACTH and cortisone...
Ruth Ford carries the main load superbly in "A Phoenix Too Frequent" with Nancy Marchand and Robert Flectcher in two supporting roles. The plot, if such it be, involves a Greek widow starving herself beside the body of her beloved Virilius, who perished heroically "in his office tunic...
...ceilinged concourse, 21 broad stairways lead to 28 bus-loading stations where 750 buses load and unload the building each day. The concourse's walls are lined with shops where the Pentagonian can buy a uniform or a brassiére, a bestseller or a funeral wreath, a birthday cake or a railroad ticket, get a haircut or a loan. Once a guiding officer boasted to visiting General Henri Giraud that the Pentagon office girl could buy both a wedding ring and a baby carriage within its walls. The Frenchman asked: "Which do they buy first...
...Bureau's most exasperating job is digesting Communist newspapers, "literature" and broadcasts, with their wearisome load of Marxian cliches. Even the fine print must be studied, for it often tells the story which the headlines are designed to hide. For instance, Neville read a maze of Marxian dialectic about the Reds' wonderful social security system ("second only to Soviet Russia's") before he found the catch: the scheme applied only to an insignificant number of workers and even for them it would be delayed...