Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Root of the confusion was a labor-management dispute involving only 8,000 men-members of the Association of Communications Equipment Workers, who install switchboard equipment for the Bell System. They wanted a long-sought raise of $6 a week, plus a promise to negotiate a postwar increase. When their demands were turned down, they walked out, threw a picket line around any telephone exchange they found handy. Most of the 25,000 long-lines operators and some local operators refused to cross the line...
Okinawa had been good ground for the Word of God. Planted in the years of peace, it had taken root, brought forth good fruit. War did not lay the ground waste. Said Army Chaplain Garland Evans Hopkins, in last week's Christian Century: "Perhaps no such witness to the durability of the Christian faith has been borne in our time as by the Okinawan Christians." His testimony...
Little Laski came last week to New York to speak on "The Challenge of the Atomic Bomb." It was a time and a topic that pressed humility upon the brows of larger men, searching their hearts to root out the seeds of conflict with their fellows. Harold Laski was troubled by no doubts. Tinnily, his arrogant challenge rang through the Astor Hotel's crowded ballroom...
...Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, had been anxious to please, an attitude largely conditioned by his autocratic father, the late, tough Reza Shah Pahlevi. Like his ten brothers and sisters, Mohamed Reza grew up in awe and admiration of the domineering old martinet who rose from the soil to root a dynasty in nothing more substantial than the high, dry air of Teheran's political intrigue...
...being cast by Warner as a no-good city slicker. He makes as much sense as he can of his moronic lines, but the plot machinery jams frequently. Clearly too fast for anyone in the picture, Zachary eventually hastens his own end by tripping over a tree root and pitching over a cliff...