Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even sent off an SOS. Not until 34 hours after she sank, when another freighter came upon the floating corpse of a seaman wearing a Morrell life jacket, was a search launched. Two hours later, a Coast Guard helicopter sighted Kale's raft, and divers in rubber suits hoisted him and his three dead mates aboard. In all, a score of bodies were recovered, and it appeared that Hale, who has a wife, two children and two stepchildren in Ashtabula, Ohio, was the sole survivor of the 29-man crew. One factor that prevented the stocky, 220-pounder from...
Whoever lands the job will have to deal with a stronger and more influential Council of the Realm and Cortes, which have up to now been mostly Franco rubber stamps...
That practice may now be ended. The NLRB has just won a highly significant victory against the United Rubber Workers of America's Local 12, which speaks for all workers at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in East Gadsden, Ala. In 1960, Goodyear laid off eight Negroes who had more seniority than white workers who kept their jobs. The union, which agreed to separate seniority lists for each race, refused to help its Negro members. Even the union's international president, George Burdon, could not dissuade Local 12. Though federal negotiators got the Negroes reinstated...
...Then, when the bell rang for Round 2, Trainer Dundee ordered: "Go after him. Use a chopping right." Clay's first chopping right dropped Williams for a count of two; his second caught the Cat flush on the mouth so hard that his teeth sliced right through his rubber mouthpiece and gashed his lower lip. Williams went down for a six count, got up, and staggered into another Clay right that knocked him flat on his back, out cold. The referee was at the count of five when the bell rang. Williams' handlers dragged him back...
...That horrible old lady!" she gasps as she staggers toward the nearest exit. The guards charge into the ladies room prepared to corner a criminal, but all they find is a grey wig and a rubber mask and their own foolish faces in the lavatory mirror...