Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grounds that nobody gets anything out of them, and that annual plant elections, while not eliminating these strikes, can at least cut them down. But the prohibition of secondary boycotts is a more complex matter: some of these are justified by the necessity for cohesion in the labor movement, while some wreak unfair harm on an employer who may have nothing to do with a dispute in another plant or industry. One thing is clear: if Congress presumes to handle the secondary boycott in a new law, it must define more closely who are the legitimate participants of a bona...
Doughnuts in the Kitchen. Soon all Borculo was working side by side at the project. At the committee table, the white-haired Protestant dominee rubbed shoulders with the boyish Catholic priest, the leader of the socialist youth movement, and the bald-headed director of the bank. In Borculo kitchens, sweating huisvrouwen labored tirelessly, preparing thousands of doughnutlike oliebollen to sell for a quarter apiece. Every evening in the grammar-school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm...
...Force has tested its pilot bed only on the ground and in the bombardier's compartment of a B17. Eleven pilots have ridden in it snugly battened down for eight hours each. They report that the bed is comfortable, but complain of boredom because of restricted movement...
Henry VIII could never have carried out such acts if there had not been a movement against Rome among his people: it was led by men willing to fight papacy and Church for the freedom to read and interpret the Bible as they saw fit. Henry never countenanced such radicals, and he burned some as heretics during his reign. To Henry, that was just good sense...
...Westward Movement...