Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spectator attacked the Emergency Council's and the King's Crown Advisory Committee's, infringement of its independence: "An intolerable situation has arisen. A willful attempt by Emergency Council is being made to grasp the reins of Spectator editorial policy so tightly that Spectator will never again be the master of its own fate.... The entire Spectator staff, Managing Board, and Associate News Board, bitterly protest this action. No one, neither the Council nor a committee of King's Crown Advisory Board has a right to approve of Spectator's editorial policy in advance. If this is allowed to occur...
...movies' master pianist, Jose Iturbi, contributes several fine plane solos and some good comedy, while Kathryn Grayson proves an attractive heroine. When the music stops, the film is devoted to skillful comedy that is both waggish and whimsical. It's the type of comedy that even Fred Allen fans would...
...threw my master in the ditch...
...Reuther, boss of the union's G.M. division, and master strategist of the union, who blueprinted the attack on G.M. A onetime tool and diemaker at Ford's, he had learned his strategy in the sitdown strikes of the '30s which had finally brought G.M. to sign a union contract. Since then all union activities pertaining to G.M., such as organizing, bargaining, etc., have been his bailiwick. Ironically, he fathered G.M.'s umpire plan to settle union grievances which kept wartime strikes in G.M. plants lowest in the industry...
...spectacle of American pie throwing, egg smashing slapstick filled his hungry body with loathing. On the street, he found the "drunk, amorous" American tourist "strutting haughtily" with the "insufferable arrogance [of] a master race." "This we can never forgive or forget...