Word: rugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sigmund did other research at Heidelberg, Paris, Cologne ("I worked best in Cologne; Paris was lovely, Cologne was duller") and in the summer went to Tunisia for a student meeting. "The Russians were terribly active. One fellow constantly took notes on everything, even on rug factories." Then came Yugoslavia and a seminar on the unification of the student world. The Chinese were there in full force ("Their leader spoke perfect English learned on a U.S. air force base during the war"), and one of the Russian "student editors" who visited the United States recently was a member of the Soviet...
...Harvard Liberal Union yesterday endorsed a report attacking Congressional proposals to extend the present draft for four years. The statement accuses Congress of "taking the easy way out and sweeping the whole problem under the rug...
...Sorry. Anyway, I was afraid I'd spill stuff all over the nice rug. So I drank some. So now there was less in the glass than there was before, but now I was less steady, so I had to drink some more to keep it from spilling on the rug. So after awhile the glass became a pitcher, and the pitcher became a barrel, and the barrel became a hogshead, until finally I was tied in with a direct pipeline that was connected up to all the gin and tonic in the world. There I was, trying to drink...
...Cannon move was adroitly timed to yank a rug from beneath the A.F.L.C.I.O. Textile Workers Union of America, which opens its convention in Charlotte, N.C. this week. The T.W.U.A. has never made much progress in organizing Cannon Mills. At Kannapolis, N.C., the company headquarters, where Cannon contributes heavily toward police, churches, golf course, etc., the union has lately been distributing leaflets pointing out that Southern textile wages, averaging $1.43 an hour, are substantially below the $2.17 average for all U.S. manufacturing. Nationally, the textile industry pays the lowest wages of any basic industry...
Anyone anxious to whip his unpracticed mercenary tendencies into really proven methods of exploitation need only try out for the Business Board. Here he will benefit from an apprenticeship unrivalled even by service with the rug merchants of the Constantinople bazaars...