Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elliott peered out from under bushy red eyebrows and a soiled worker's cap. "It's not that we object to the machine so much," Alf said. "We're all for the machine just so it don't replace us and make us-" he groped for a 10-bob word-"and make us redundant. But the guv'nor [the boss] just put it on without consulting us and laid off those men. We can't allow that...
...this scattered activity added up to one gathering purpose. That purpose called itself the Caribbean Legion. Some of the Legion were political exiles, some were plain mercenaries, but they all had a common object: the overthrow of Caribbean dictators. Around the Caribbean circuit, in Havana, in Caracas, bustling agents were collecting arms, haggling for battle-weary aircraft, signing up an occasional recruit. The Legion's first target: Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio Somoza...
Meanwhile the object of all this regard, his paunchy body supported in a hammock, was taking his ease at his hilltop finca, Santa Julia. "Tacho" Somoza was nursing a cold and spending as much time as possible with his daughter Lillian Sevilla Sacasa and her four children. Tacho laid his head back, presented his broad, tanned cheeks to his barber...
Along with some 500 other people, I was not admitted to a string quartet concert in Sanders Theater . . . owing to the fact that the hall was full by five minutes of eight. I do not object so much to the fact that I could not get in, but rather to the way the milling crowd outside was treated. The yard cop at the door simply said that no more people would be admitted, locked the door and let it go at that. The door was, however, opened two or three times in the next twenty minutes. The first time someone...
...main object of this year's Red Book staff will be to "humanize the volume, to make it more entertaining and appealing," Gilbert said last night. However, before starting on the Red Book, Gilbert and his staff will oversee final work on the Freshman Register, which will be published around Thanksgiving...