Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eager to top Hoffa, McDonald last week unwrapped a gaudy parcel of his own: three-month vacations for steelworkers every five years, in addition to the regular yearly vacations of from two to three weeks. Striking the statesmanlike stance that union presidents assume when explaining how what is good for their unions is good for the country, McDonald argued that three-month vacations would help ease the "disemployment" caused by increasing automation...
...bloodily in the snow. We had hoped that two crack regiments, the Semyonov and the Preobrazhensky would act in defense of the Assembly. Now word came that they had decided to remain neutral; they would neither go into the streets against the demonstrators nor join with them. Like other regular army units, they believed that all that was at stake was a simple misunderstanding between the authority of the Bolshevik regime and that of the Constituent Assembly. The soldiers hoped both bodies could find a way of uniting peacefully. So did the 40 delegates of the "Left" Social Revolutionaries...
Died. Rudolf Viktor Heberlein, 57, automation-minded board chairman of his family-owned Swiss textile plant, chairman of Swissair's board of directors, who arranged for transportation of 1,253 U.N. troops to Egypt during the November 1956 crisis without disrupting regular schedules; of a heart attack; in Wattwil, Switzerland...
...undefeated Yardling squashmen will also play Williams, but with a force far below full strength. Four of the regular starting nine will not be in today's match...
...realism, he stirs raw sex, raw talk, raw emotions and raw ideas in a crude vat of the rawest home-brewed English. In From Here to Eternity, this concoction helped put across Novelist Jones's abrasive vision of a little-known area of U.S. life, the peacetime Regular Army. Steamy with sex, Some Came Running may hit the same one-armed bandit of bestselling success, but it is more than one-third longer (some 700,000 words in all) than king-sized Eternity-and three-thirds duller...