Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missed. "George Meany is the AFL-CIO," asserts Fred Kroll, president of the railway, airline and steamship clerks' union. No one ever questioned Meany's dedication to the movement. The second of ten children of an Irish family in The Bronx, Meany became an apprentice plumber at 16. He soon proved as skilled at manipulating people as pipes. Stolid in appearance, sometimes slow of speech, he was easy to underestimate. But in any encounter, few rivals could match his wits or the forcefulness with which he pressed his views...
...went to jail for obstructing justice in the Watergate investigations. The second party featured one of Nixon's favorite teams along with 300 other guests who had in various ways been helpful at La Casa. Not the least was Garcia of San Clemente, who was Nixon's plumber on the West Coast...
...vision abroad of an incorrigibly profligate America led to skepticism about Carter's energy speeches. "I cannot believe Carter," said Thomas Jensen, an Oslo plumber, "until I see his words transformed into results, and that depends on Americans, who waste energy so badly." Vienna's daily Die Presse wrote: "The chances of the Carter plan's success are small because of conflicting interests and the population's clinging to 'the American way of life.'" Unfortunately, European, Asian and other foreign commentators failed to recognize that if Carter realizes his goal of creating an extremely...
...Phoenix rationale is straightforward. Marriage is a vocation. "You cannot become a plumber or an electrician in two weeks," remarks the priest who heads the diocesan tribunal. Bishop Rausch believes that lack of mature preparation is the chief cause of trouble. "We need to move our young people beyond romance or physical attraction to the sound foundations of love." It will take hard work, he adds, for Catholics to resist the trend to treat marriage and divorce casually...
Periodically he bends down, takes a genuine chicken from the outstretched hands of someone on the ground and inserts the bird into a large rural mailbox on the platform. Then he seizes a plumber's helper and, like an artilleryman ram-rodding home a shell, nudges the chicken's tail feathers and plunges it into flight. Beneath the launching platform is a triangular corral, several hundred feet long, fashioned with snow fences. In it waits a squad of small boys cradling large fish nets. As each chicken takes flight squawking in protest and spraying feathers, a boy dashes...