Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wait Ten Years. Only recently has Chinese pride permitted a lowering of the all but impenetrable veil that shrouded their condition from the outside world. California's Labor Commission and the San Francisco Central Labor Council have heard depressing testimony from Chinatown residents about working conditions in the district. Last week, led by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union,* labor opened a campaign of pickets, sanctions and the threat of boycott against eight Chinatown sewing shops and a contracting firm. Although the goal is not immediate unionization, the 25,000-member culinary workers union is waiting in the wings...
Fairchild prodded reporters to ferret out fashion news ahead of competitors; he needled designers and manufacturers into giving him exclusives, and he insisted on getting the material for fashion sketches earlier than anyone else. Women's Wear has come to pride itself on scoops, from revealing Jackie Kennedy's Paris buying sprees during the 1960 election campaign to printing the first sketch of Luci Johnson's wedding dress -an act that caused the paper's reporters to be banned from the wedding...
...pride, the power, the greed: it is all in the play, and that's what I like about O'Neill-he gets up there and says...
...with The Star Spangled Banner or Stars and Stripes Forever, the clues to its popularity are easy to see. For one, it is free. For another, even clinkers are fun to people who are there as participants, friends and relatives. Moreover, concerts give a town an item of civic pride. "It's a true gathering of the real family life of America," says one mother, who might be quoting The Music Man line: "Gotta figger out a way t'keep the young ones moral after school!" The old find charm in the band-concert tradition and the young...
...pays a third of the cost (about $400), supplies such wall material as concrete, adobe or brick, and provides the labor to assemble the structure, which can be put together in a few days. "Knowing that they have contributed," explains Construction Engineer Enrique Estrada, "gives villagers a sense of pride and ownership...