Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Workers (who made no counter demands) were convinced that they were up against old-fashioned union-busting in a state where their toe hold was all too shaky. Reluctantly, they pulled 1,000 workers from the mill in a strike that has since ripped apart what was once a quiet, tight-woven community in what begins to look like a lost cause...
...Quiet but tense since the militia withdrew in August, Henderson is divided between the dogged strikers and the rest of the city-which just wishes the strike would go away. High School Principal Frederick R. Kesler believes "a lot of things have been said in this town that will take a long time to heal," worries that the strike may erect a permanent wall of hatred between children from the town and the mill villages. Scripture-quoting West Virginia-born Boyd Payton, 51, Textile Workers' director for the Carolinas, keeps his remarkably loyal Bible-belt flock together with reminders...
...wife is determined, and Carnovsky's only strength seems to be his wit; this is sad since his wit is less honed than that of his wife, whose part is a bit overplayed by Sarah Cunningham. Carnovsky's magnificent outbursts take on meaning from his more frequent displays of quiet resignation before wife's and fate's hand: "Did I say no?" he asks, seeking reconciliation. "The only thing was I didn't say yes loud enough...." This is a tremendously funny play. But the humor is warm, so close to life that it could not possibly be transmitted without...
Blaming the controversy on a few new executives who "wanted to flex their muscles," he said that the employers rather than the workers started the issue. Angoff thought that the present strike would probably quiet their ambitions for a while though...
Colby roiled in confusion when Connecticut-born Philosopher Bixler arrived in 1942, after teaching at Harvard Divinity School. Founded in 1813, Colby had opened on a pleasant site between the quiet Kennebec River and a country road. A century later, the campus lay suffocating between smelly paper mills and a clanking railroad...