Word: ps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gotten most of his ideas on this subject from a comic book whose hero was Uncle Sam. The book said that Uncle Sam was happy because he was free to go around and "lip off" about anything he pleased, because "he didn't have to mind his Ps...
...manpower trade, she learned her ABCs and minded her Ps & Qs in the early alphabetical New Deal days of NRA, WPA and the Social Security Board. At one point she was so busy that she was known as "Seven-Job Anna." As New York regional director of the War Manpower Commission in World War II, she evolved "the Buffalo Plan," juggling manpower on the basis of priorities, which was copied across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running...
...putting their own "combination" stores out of business. But if the Hartfords started late, they moved fast, started opening supermarkets right & left, and added such wrinkles as pre-packaged meats & produce, weighed and pricetagged. They expanded by contracting. Each new supermarket closed some six of the old-type A & Ps so that the number of stores dwindled from 1930's peak of 15,737 to today's 4,682. Yet they built so much more volume that sales, payrolls and employees rose higher than ever...
...bail, exhorted his followers anew. "When you get your eyes off Jesus, you'll always go down. How many say amen?" shouted Tom. "Amen," screamed the congregation. Student evangelists from his three schools, flashing their bright gold-and-navy sweaters with the big block Ps, passed the collection plate. Weekdays, between sessions in the dingy classrooms over a downtown furniture store, they picketed the courthouse noisily...
...scrutiny of the Oakland Council of Churches, they started holding revivals and set up three schools-the Academy of Christian Education, Patten College and Patten Seminary. Students joined up at the rate of 300 a year, paying $20 a month tuition, slipping on bright school sweaters with big block Ps, and learning the school yells. Sample, adopted from the old "Give 'em the ax": "Give 'em the Word, the Word, the Word." Some paid $5 for the academy's first and only yearbook, The Portal, a tome which explained Brother Tom's role in the world...