Word: plait
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...snubbed Wyndham Mortimer, veteran first vice president and leader of the opposition, by upping young Richard Frankensteen, hero of the "Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plait, to a new job as assistant president. He ordered Robert Travis transferred from the powerful Flint (Mich.) local, prepared to split that local's 30,000 members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full...
...they understood and enjoyed every word. Pupils, sent on the advice of their teachers and glad of any chance to go to the theatre, conscientiously endeavored to follow the dialogue during the first act, and gave little gasps of glee when they understood a "s'll yous plait" or a "danke schon." But by the second act all except the most proficient linguists gave up the battle, and lazily resigned themselves to watching the few French or German-horn person in the audience and laughing heartily whenever they gave signs of being amused...
...best books of dramatic technique--by ladies who have written pageants for the Cope Valley Community Players--which claim that the female must appear in strength numerical as well as sexual. Walking in beauty from out the wings is supposed to add that intangible repondez s'il vous plait without which no galleries will be filled. We all know now what a lot of nasty feminist propaganda this is. Give Cecil Dixon the eyes wistful and blue, and riding breeches that fit in that certain way, and about nine o'clock it becomes fairly easy to predict the chances...
...commerce for a man approaching middle age. So he journeyed to St. Louis, opened a gasoline station for himself. This was a real business; a man was more like his fellows . . . turning the pump crank, making change. But when he would stoop to open an oil cock, his hanging plait of fat interfered. He decided to rid himself...
...most beautiful girls from the Sophomore Class to carry the chain. While beauty is the prerequisite, popularity is sometimes reckoned as a degree of beauty. On the morning of Class Day, the remainder of the Sophomore Class go into the nearby fields, pick many carloads of daisies which they plait into a chain. Meanwhile, the 24 rest, or busy themselves arranging shoulder pads on which to bear the weight of the Chain (about seven pounds for each shoulder). In the afternoon, guests assemble before the stage of the Vassar outdoor theatre; an orchestra of strings and woodwinds strikes...