Word: reopenings
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...mere horseshoe man; he had a devil of a way with all sorts of ironwork, including intricate locks. Once he was commissioned to build a strongbox and did the job with customary thoroughness. Being disappointed in his fee, Lyon snapped the box shut. Since no one else could reopen it, the box stayed shut until Lyon got double pay. Lyon's growing reputation finally got him into trouble. A Philadelphia bank had been robbed, and people said nobody could have got past its locks and bars except Blacksmith Lyon, who had recently repaired them. Protesting manfully, he was arrested...
...broke my window with a slingshot," he said, and struck the schoolmaster. Smarting, Neighbor Fillis vowed vengeance, and knew how to get it. Informing the authorities that he himself had taught two of Nicholas' brothers when they were living in a native quarter, he got the authorities to reopen Nicholas' listing for the Book of Life this year and change it to colored. That meant Nicholas was unlawfully occupying his corrugated iron and brick house in Bertrams. The government hauled him into court...
...battled for 156 days, came boasts of triumph. Actually, both had lost. The union dropped its insistence on a one-year contract and gave Westinghouse the five-year agreement it demanded to make itself competitive with General Electric, which has a similar contract. But the union can reopen the contract and strike for wage increases after one year...
Flailing at Nixon from Eveleth, Minn., Democrat Adlai Stevenson last week echoed a familiar, false criticism of U.S. capitalism, namely, that it feeds on disaster and thrives on war. Said Stevenson: "When the President seemed to reopen the door for Richard, I heard on the radio that the stock market reacted to Vice President Nixon's improved political fortunes by going up a few points. I don't, as I say, know exactly what this means- but I do recall that the market normally rises in the face of a declaration of war or other national calamity...
...means of transportation were hampered by the storm. Flights at Logan Airport were cancelled at 2 p.m., and the field is not scheduled to reopen before 7 a.m. this morning...