Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vagueness v. Vulnerability. The second case was brought by Marcos Gonzales, a machinist living in San Francisco. In 1950 Gonzales got into a quarrel with International Association of Machinists officials and was expelled. In plain violation of NLRB rules the I.A.M. hiring hall refused to refer him to another job. The California courts gave Gonzales $7,500 in back pay, $2,500 in punitive damages, and the Supreme Court upheld the awards...
...freely acknowledged by San Francisco's way-gone Don Sherwood (TIME, Sept. 9) that he is the world's greatest disk jockey. But when he gets too far away from his records, he tends to set some-chiefly for wild talk, editorializing and plain old airborne nonsense. Tireless champion of all underdogs, Sherwood thought that he had found a great cause last April: New Mexico's Navajo Indians. Commentator Sherwood was soon berating the U.S. Government for freezing Navajo funds (it has not), arguing that the tribe is ill fed, ill housed (it is not), trying...
This Angry Age (De Laurentiis; Columbia). "There were many children in the plain," wrote Marguerite Duras in The Sea Wall (TIME, March 16, 1953), the brutally beautiful French novel about Indo-China on which this film is based. "They were a kind of calamity . . . They came each year, by periodical tides, by crops. They were everywhere, perched in the trees, on the backs of buffaloes . . . in the mud, looking for the dwarf crabs of the rice fields, [and] they were always followed by packs of stray dogs, whose . . . main nourishment was their excrement . . . They died in such numbers that they...
STOCK TRADING on New York Stock Exchange is up almost 10% from last year's bull-market level. Round-lot and odd-lot trading stands at 232 million shares, v. 211 million a year ago-a plain sign that the public has plenty of money...
Letting his fins down, Clare Briggs, Chrysler Corp. vice president, last week issued some plain talk on what is wrong with the auto business. "Many salesmen don't know how to sell," he said, auto service is bad, and the quality of cars is "not as good as ten years ago." The auto industry, admitted Briggs, "has treated the public badly, to say it mildly...