Word: quill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...older and more experienced British unionists, whose power in the labor world was once undisputed, clearly resented being crowded by what seemed to them young upstarts, with pushing ways, loud ties and big, expensive cigars. They were annoyed especially when Mike Quill, truculent boss of the U.S. Transport Workers and a professional Irishman, blurted that Northern Ireland was "a slave state...
...Caribbean, halting, as the whim seized him, in a tent in the desert, a palace in Portugal or an old house in Constantinople. He carried around with him a trunkful of objets d'art, including a bronze bull, his own novels bound in white vellum, some colored quill-pens, a "vast tortoiseshell crucifix" and stacks of "those large blue rectangular postcards" on which he wrote both his novels and correspondence ("Tomorrow I go to Hayti," crooned one such card to Sir Osbert. "They say the President is a Perfect Dear...
Others closed in. Did Bridges want to belong to "a democratic organization such as C.I.O.?" shouted the maritime union's Joe Curran. "Then, by God, carry out its national policies and programs." Roared Mike Quill at Bridges and the other left-wing leaders: "Pinks, punks and parasites...
Protective Coloration. In San Antonio, harassed Postmaster Dan Quill begged that municipal trash cans be painted orange - or almost any color but postbox green...
Tired Mayor William O'Dwyer, who had just said that he would seek reelection, flew back from a Mexican holiday to see what it would take to quiet Mike Quill...