Word: room
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...management attack on work rules gave a propaganda opening on the other side for Steelworkers President Dave McDonald, who raised a cry that the bosses were trying to take away the coffee break and regulate trips to the men's room. Steelworkers, who had been grumbling 'that no wage increase was worth a strike because it was sure to be canceled out by price upcreep, rallied to the union's charges that management wants to put the workers "at the mercy of every plant supervisor...
...Hoffa left the crowded Senate caucus room at hearing's end, the McClellan committee had little cause for rejoicing. After three years of concentrated digging and tons of testimony, Jimmy Hoffa was a more arrogant, more dangerous labor boss than ever. And, as if to prove it, he headed off to Miami Beach to urge the convention of the International Longshoremen's Association to join with the Teamsters and West Coast Longshoremen in one big happy labor family-which, incidentally, would have tight control over the principal arteries of the nation's transportation...
...hired troops dropped by the wayside, Goldfine tried to have the case thrown out of federal court on the claim that his Washington hotel room had been bugged by a former investigator for the subcommittee, but, although his claim was true, the contempt charge remained on the docket. Last week, when he came up for trial, Goldfine, 68, switched his plea from not guilty to nolo contendere (no contest), threw himself on the mercy of the court. Said Federal Judge James Morris: Goldfine's plea is a "complete vindication of the committee. [It] admits all of the relevant facts...
Sobs at the Palace. As Castro's tirade roared on, now comprehensible, now incoherent, Urrutia watched a television set in his wife's sitting room at the palace. His face was ashen, and his right cheek twitched nervously as Castro's high-pitched voice filled the room. At one point, a female secretary yelled toward the TV screen: "That's a lie!" The President's wife retreated, red-eyed, to her bedroom. Finally, Urrutia rose, went into a small office, wrote out his resignation, sent it to the television studio, turned his head...
...school. To it thronged pupils who later graduated to Founder Rambert's company and then to careers in larger companies-Choreographers Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, Andrée Howard, Agnes de Mille. Swaddled in wrinkled black tights and shapeless pink top. Teacher Rambert would roam the practice room correcting ("Long the arms"), scolding ("You use your leg like a mop"), occasionally doing exuberant cart wheels across the floor. Still as exuberant as ever, she now celebrates each birthday by doing a "fish dive" into the arms of the nearest partner...