Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blond Smithie (class of '59), has a pleasant and natural voice, but more striking is her versatility of dramatic expression. In one scene, she coos sweetly over the new-born babe as the group sings "Virgin Mary Had a Little Baby," and in a subsequent number, she brandishes a mean pen-knife in a rowdy rendition of "Union Maid." Although 3 Folk Sing is nominally a trio, there is also a fourth, Paul Prestopino, a talented instrumentalist who accompanies the others. With his black beard and black-rimmed glasses, he provides added flavoring to the "Family of Man" atmosphere...
...possibly even advanced by decisions reached by the employees and employers in this field. It is a basic industry, and whatever is done affects all the rest of industry, and I can only say this: that we must look to them for some good sense and some wisdom-I mean real business-labor statesmanship-or in the long run the U.S. cannot stand still and do nothing...
Anderson: "I didn't intend it to mean anything else...
Frontier College from Fellow Yaleman Ben Spock, was a teacher in an Ontario construction camp in 1928. Recalls Bishop Stokes (who answered to the camp tag, "Slim"): "I asked the carpenter boss, 'Can I have some 18-inch spreaders?' He answered: 'Young man, I think you mean, "May I have some 18-inch spreaders...
...What do you mean 'but?'" Jack Bowles continued the attack. "Maybe you are going to say that this happens only in the southern and "border" states? Or that this is only true of Negroes? Just remember what happened to the Korean-American, Sammy Lee. This athlete twice won gold medals for the U.S.A. in diving at the Olympic Games. The President himself sent him on a tour in the Far East. And why? So he would be an example of the absence of racial discrimination in America. And what happened to him when he came back? Because of the color...