Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Workers, intellectuals and clergymen leaped to Ben Sadok's defense. Jean-Pierre Mayer, a member of the Young Catholic Worker movement, who had worked beside him as a plumber in Strasbourg, testified for the accused. He cried: "Ben Sadok, you are my friend, you are my brother, as we are all sons of the same God. Ali Chekkal would understand your gesture. No more bayonets between us." Witness Mayer departed, weeping...
...deal was an open challenge from Innocenti, a portly, 66-year-old onetime plumber's helper, to Italy's midget-car giant, Fiat. It was Innocenti's second big challenge to Fiat. The first he won handily. He maneuvered Fiat out of its share of a joint Fiat-Innocenti contract to build a $342 million Venezuelan mine-to-mill steel complex on the Orinoco River to exploit a nearby mountain of high-grade (up to 60%) ore. Innocenti left Italy a year ago, planned to spend a few days looking into the Venezuelan prospects. The more...
...with 'scholarship.' " Nor is the emerging Ph.D. "what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card catalogues . . . and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage...
...Teamster economic power would bluff the A.F.L.-C.I.O. into backing down, Hoffa & Co. planned to ask the A.F.L-C.I.O. Executive Council for a year's probation. There was not a chance. For sitting at the head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. was 63-year-old George Meany, the stocky, onetime plumber's helper with a mind and heart as tough as cast-iron pipe. To Meany-and the executive council-the issue was clear: the Teamsters were dirty, they had fair warning, there was no backing down...
Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card cata- logues or other areas and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage. As a teacher, he may well lack that vivid excitement before fact or expression which is the basis of real communication. As a scholar, he may lack the means which a rigorous training in disciplines and techniques ought to have given him. If he knows that he does not possess the necessary tools with which a piece of work ought to be tackled, and that his training in form...