Word: loth
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...wage increase, thus a bargaining matter. Richfield, which will appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, argued that the ruling "permits the union to represent employees not only as employees but also in their capacity as stockholders." Many a company planning stock plans for employees will be loth to start them under the new ruling...
...intervene. In Karachi, 5,000 Moslems burst through police lines and burned an effigy of "French Colonialism." The U.S., with some 20,000 Americans stationed at the four SAC air bases in Morocco, maneuvered to keep from being involved. Anxious to support the cause of Arab freedom, yet loth to antagonize NATO Partner France, Washington only expressed concern and asked the French government not to use U.S. equipment in its African colonies...
...prepared to plug anything from Coca-Cola, which I don't drink, to the Democratic Party, though I prefer the Republican, and can be sour or sweet, bellicose or pacific, to order." Lord Scarsdale, 57, of the famed Curzon family, a 2nd Viscount, 6th Baron and loth Baronet all in one, enclosed a pamphlet with his job application, detailing the glories of his ancestral home, Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire. Not counting those with hyphenated names claiming to be direct descendants of William the Conqueror ("If they don't give their background, we don't even answer them...
...that what Johnny doesn't know shouldn't hurt him. Among the questions regarded as too tough: "The Maximilian affair caused the United States to protest to the government of 1) France, 2) Great Britain, 3) Russia, 4) Spain"; "Which of these was in existence from the loth to the 19th century: 1) Hanseatic League, 2) Holy Alliance, 3) Ottoman Empire, 4) Holy Roman Empire...
...long-range aim now appears to be neutralization of Germany, but the West can hardly agree to a weak and disarmed Germany, with U.S., British and French forces removed, standing on the doorsill of the Communist bloc of nations. On the other hand, the Communists will be very loth to agree to a strong, armed Germany standing at the heart of Western defense...