Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Grenada's powerful Mental and Manual Workers' Union called an all-island strike last week to protest against anti-strike measures before the island legislature, island authorities frantically wirelessed for help. H.M.S. Devonshire, light cruiser on a training cruise in nearby waters, landed Royal Marines. As angry plantation workers rioted and fired buildings the marines set to work to get the situation in hand...
Strait Jacket? Actually, the regulations, drastic though they sounded, were from the censorship provisions of the Army Field Manual, under which war correspondents worked during World War II. What shook newsmen was not the language, but the way Thompson's small band of inexperienced censors began interpreting it. Newsmen were told that they might no longer use the word "retreat." Retreat, it appeared, was only what the enemy did. The Eighth Army's backpedaling was all part of a plan, said security officers, therefore it should and would be called a "withdrawal"no exceptions tolerated...
...early years in Dayton were more often spent seeking jobs than being sought after. Of Yankee and German Swiss stock, the son of a high-school manual training teacher, Stanton started earning money as a newsboy. After school he worked at the Metropolitan men's clothing store where he progressed from stock boy to window trimmer and showcard artist. His former boss, Richard Meyer, recalls that Stanton was wise beyond his years: "We used to get into arguments about religion and sex -on a very serious plane. Most fellows his age didn't worry about those things...
...Editor in Charge of Finding Prognosticators was idly thumbing through his witchcraft manual last night when he heard a sudden grinding of gears behind him. He looked up; there steed a large adding machine with legs...
Basic dormitory regulations--as set down in a little purple manual referred to as the "joke book"--state that the Holy Cross upperclassman must be in for the night by 7:30 p.m. on weekdays, 11:45 p.m. on Saturdays, and 11 p.m. on Sundays. For freshmen these times are moved up approximately an hour. A monitoring system of corridor prefects checks up on obedience to these rules with more or less conscientiousness...