Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United's President William Patterson, who complained bitterly that United already pays the highest wages of any domestic U.S. line, was willing to talk pay raises, but not "increased productivity" bonuses. Said he: "I will not saddle this business with the same featherbedding practices that ruined the railroads and would ruin the airlines...
...town (normal pop. 40,000) on the upper Naktong River in southeastern Korea. Last March, when Colonel Fremont S. ("Tom") Tandy, 50, and his 32nd Engineer Construction Group arrived in Andong, they found the place more than half destroyed. The townspeople were most concerned with the bombed- out ruin of the Bridge of the Rising Buddha. It was Andong's major link with the coast of the Sea of Japan, some 60 road miles away. With the bridge out, Andong and several million inhabitants of North Kyongsang Province were having great trouble getting their food...
...peered, beaming, over his shoulder. "Where," he asked, "are all those little kids?" The attorneys fell back. Presently, the President stood flanked by children, his hand resting on the shoulder of an especially photogenic little girl. "This," he confided to her, smiling paternally as the flashlights blinked, "will ruin you for life...
...good measure twisted the British lion's tail by executing two British subjects who were aiding the Indians. For a time, the U.S. tottered on the brink of war, and Monroe's Cabinet said Jackson had "committed war upon Spain . . . which, if not disavowed," would ruin the Administration. Jackson's actions were popular with the country and with history, and when Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. a year later, he was even more firmly established as a hero. Nine years later (1828), Jackson was elected President. (He is Harry Truman's favorite President...
...poems are the best things in the new Advocate. "The House at the Cascades," by Adrienne Rich, is as clean, tight, and refreshing as Miss Rich's previous work. She writes of a house going to ruin, and does so with remarkable unpretentiousness: "The tamest shrub remembered anarchy, and joined in appetite with the demagogue weed . . ." The other, "Digging for China," by Richard Wilbur, is simple and evocative; Wilbur's clarity should inspire some of the Advocate's more obscure writers to intense self-examination...