Word: rug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Labor Leaders William Green, Philip Murray and Walter Reuther stamped across the turkey-red rug. Green refused to admit that there had been any abuses by labor of its power. Murray declaimed: "Rape is being perpetrated on the people." Reuther declared: "Free enterprise will survive only if it can be made to work...
...immediate result was clear. With the marines' withdrawal, the U.S. would be in a better moral position than ever before to insist that its only aim is to encourage a united, democratic China. It would yank the rug from under vociferous U.S. and foreign Communists who had been loudly shouting "U.S. imperialism" (and whose first, triumphant approval last week seemed to contradict their reputation for shrewdness). It would also quash the slightly ridiculous charge that a few thousand marines were intended as a show of force against the massive Russian Far Eastern armies...
...started chasing me across the rug a nice rug it was too. i retired underneath a deep leather couch but he was very unpleasant and crawled on his hands and knees mind you after me very boorish he was. he made a scene and a lot of other men stood around and gawped. i was embarrassed...
Last week Athens reported heavy troop movements and concentrations in Yugoslavia's Vardar Valley, north of Greece. It seemed likely that all such activity would stop before the Security Council investigators could get within gunshot. If Greece's northern neighbors should hastily sweep everything under the rug, it would be up to the investigators to lift the rug...
...corporation profits, who could predict what they would be in 1947? Strikes, for instance, would pull the rug out from under the best of prospects. The shaky state of the stockmarket, which Nathan brushed off as merely "bad psychology," reflected industry's deep concern...