Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stubbornness, it yielded to the striking New York Newspaper Guild on nearly every contested point, including dues checkoff (automatic payroll deduction of Guild dues). Even the wage settlement in the new two-year contract-ranging from $3.50 a week more for copy boys to $10.50 for reporters-was far nearer the Guild's original demand than management's first offer. The News also suffered another embarrassment. The New York Times, not directly involved in the strike, was actively involved in ending it. It was at the request of the Times that U.S. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz rushed...
...avoiding precise knowledge of the details to keep himself from implication if the mission failed. When it did fail, he followed the advice Hess left him in a parting letter and declared that Hess was the victim of "hallucinations." Moreover, in the spring of 1941, Leasor asserts, England was nearer to capitulation "than anyone now likes to admit." Winston Churchill was so afraid of the effect the peace offer might have on British morale that his representatives came to interview Hess disguised as psychiatrists, so that no word of continued government interest could possibly leak...
...murky theatrical waters of Boston and Washington, iceberg-cool critics put a sizable hole in its hull. Drifting into view on Broadway, Mr. President carried a trapped and talented crew that seemed to take comfort in huddling together at the finale to sing an Irving Berlin version of Nearer, My God, to Thee called This Is a Great Country ("If this is flag waving, flag waving, do you know of a better flag to wave?"). But unlike the "unsinkable" Titanic, Mr. President will take at least two years to go under; it has more than $2,650,000 in advance...
...outdoor life, perhaps heightened by the brush-fire spread of urbanization. Second is the growing amount of leisure-longer weekends, longer vacations and more money to spend. There is also the stepped-up mobility of modern life: superhighways and fast cars-even private planes-are bringing vacation areas nearer to metropolitan centers. And with the nation's population of those 65 and older growing faster than almost any other age group, the conversion of vacation houses to retirement houses is an increasingly attractive possibility...
...American Bartenders School in Chicago: "Most shot glasses today are sort of an optical illusion. Some of them taper so much on the inside that you can't even get your little finger into the bottom of the glass." What looks like solid whisky is usually nearer to solid glass...