Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor economic miracles in the past couple of years has been the quietly cooperative spirit of U.S. labor. As living costs sailed skyward and corporate profits rose sharply, most of the nation's biggest and toughest unions accepted relatively moderate contracts that added little to the rapid pace of inflation. But that remarkable show of patience has now ended. The American workers' mood has turned increasingly bitter lately, and wage demands have climbed steadily higher...
...that position from $50,000 to $35,000 and auctioned off to members three of the union's Cadillac limousines. Even as he planned to raise the incomes of U.M.W. members, he declined to adopt a princely life-style at their expense. Unlike most U.S. union chiefs, who rose through a series of headquarters jobs, Miller carried fresh in his mind the memories of rank-and-file travails. Just two years before, he had been down working in the mines, and on the eve of his ascent to power he had been supporting a family of four with part...
Died. Johnny Mack Brown, 70, the University of Alabama's 1926 Rose Bowl hero, who became a leading man in films with Marion Davies (The Fair Coed) and Mary Pickford (Coquette), then went on to star in Hollywood westerns of the '30s and '40s; after a long illness; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...tumbling at the Bellamys'. Lady Marjorie is hardly dead in the Titanic disaster, and ne'er-do-well Son James is planning to marry his father's typist. Upstairs is distraught; downstairs, aghast. Pale green eyes narrowing in her pretty vixen's mask, head Houseparlormaid Rose Buck voices the general anxiety: "A stranger has been in my linen closet. I don't know if I'm still wanted here...
...criticized the handling of the Vietnam war, saying that America should never have become involved in an Asian land war. "We should have finished off North Vietnam with planes in three weeks," he said, as a murmur rose in the audience...