Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caine Mutiny), seen only one movie (On the Waterfront) and taken no vacations. Years ago some fellow unionists took him to a Lake Huron shore cottage for a holiday; he stayed indoors reading up on economics. When they finally got him out on the lake, the water turned rough and Reuther got seasick...
Time and success have mellowed both Reuther and the mass movement that swept up the distressed workers of Detroit two decades ago. Ford workers average $106 weekly; economic desperation no longer harasses the men for reasons beyond their ken. Union conventions, once rough and fiery, now seem like Rotary meetings. In 1945 the G.M. strike began with the class-struggle refrain, Solidarity Forever. This month's strike threat brought forth, instead, over the U.A.W. radio program, a comic song directed at Henry Ford II: Dance With Me, Henry...
...decades he has taught at Harvard, thousands of students have sailed into history under Morison's command and few of them will ever forget the voyage. The waters could be rough and the weather stormy, but no one could ever say that the trip had been dull. Last week, as he got set to retire, Morison was more than merely a great historian. He was also, in the tradition of Parkman and Prescott, the eloquent champion of history as the art of adventure...
...night, when everyone was asleep, I would get up from my bunk, and on a rough box I would prepare the altar and celebrate Mass. For the consecration ot the Eucharist, I used little crumbs of bread and five or six drops of wine. The most difficult thing to find was the wine, but the Lord saw to it that I never lacked. Sometimes I made it myself, fermenting the juice I squeezed out of bunches of dried grapes that I got from a fellow prisoner in exchange for many platefuls of 'Volga.' I kept this precious wine...
...year after he won control of the New York Central Railroad, pugnacious Robert R. Young and his stockholders set out to celebrate his first birthday as boss. For the 800 stockholders who gathered in Albany for the annual meeting last week, the party turned out to be a rough and rowdy celebration...