Word: rest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern which, with a few cents' variation here & there, would presumably fit the rest of the struck steel industry comfortably, and Phil Murray had timed it well. In Cleveland, where he had a lot at stake this week, Phil Mur ray and jovial, ruddy Joseph Larkin, a Bethlehem Steel vice president, walked smiling into a roomful of steelworker negotiators to break the news. Then, serenaded by workers' cheers and loud singing, they called a press conference to explain the settlement. President Murray was able to walk into the C.I.O.'s highly charged annual convention with a great...
...spent in starting to build a 58-group Air Force. On this subject Harry Truman had been sharp and clear: he wanted the Air Force held to 48 groups. So with a brisk bit of juggling, he took what he wanted of the bill and left the rest...
...News. "If U.S. citizenship were to be conferred only on alien married people and virgins of both sexes-well, we ask you." The Immigration Service sulked. It announced sturdily that it would continue to apply its "normal Christian standards." Snapped an official: "There is no use to subject the rest of the country, to the moral standards, if any, in New York...
...Burma could solve the problem of the rebellious Karens, the chances are that it would then be able to set the rest of its chaotic house in order. The Karens, who number about 2,000,000, are a predominantly Christian (Baptist), politically rightist minority who have been steadfastly insisting that they have a semi-autonomous state within the Union of Burma. The Karens' exorbitant territorial demands include most of lower Burma...
...grandson* of the Mormon leader, wanted it to go in a small alcove just off the main rotunda. Utah sponsors wanted it in the rotunda. But, objected the sculptor, the only spot available there is impossible: the statue would be right off the entrance to the ladies' rest room...