Word: reckoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even as the C.I.O. got ready to swing the Nathan club, General Motors' President C. E. Wilson stated flatly that price rises would follow wage rises as night follows day. Whether the policy was stupid, as Reuther declared, this was the reality, and responsible labor leaders had to reckon with...
...succession fits all known factors. Molotov has long been Stalin's chief administrative assistant, and with Beria in the next top post, the new Government can hope for the full support of the secret police. As for the Army, the other force on which the Kremlin has to reckon, the new marshals like Zhukov, who might have Bonapartist ambitions, are suspect. Voroshilov and Budenny, as old party warhorses, are politically much more reliable...
...squatters-" rose, reached a frightening crescendo and fell again. From the squatters, whose morale still held, came the answering chant, "We'll stick it-we'll stick it." A poorly dressed woman wiped her eyes, smiled and said: "Ah, bless 'em, poor devils, I reckon they deserve medals for this." On the outskirts of the crowd a middleaged, middle-class man stood watching. "Poor devils," he said. "Pity they can't see how they're being used by the Reds...
...reckon dyin' is black. Some folks say it's gold. Some say it's white as hominy grits . . . I reckon it's black...
Again, the Communists had failed to reckon with the Church. No blaring slogans or challenging invective came from Catholic pulpits. But on Sunday (i.e., election day) morning, cures throughout France preached that "to abstain from the polls is treason." The congregations went out from Mass to cast their...