Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STEVENS, the country's second largest textile industry, is notorious for its unethical and illegal labor practices. It pays its workers less than any other industry in the country. It combats workers' attempts to organize with blatant force or threats of dismissal. It lays off workers incapacitated with the brown lung disease contracted in the mills, refusing to provide compensation. But J.P. Stevens is not solely responsible for its workers' inability to organize against these abuses. Rise Gonna Rise argues that Stevens' workers are also prevented from organizing by their own nostalgic feelings and deference...
...they did it in high style, capturing five of the top eleven places -- including second, third, and fourth and sending the favored Eli's, who haven't won the event in twenty years, home to New Haven without the Main Memorial Trophy yet again...
Eichner held onto his early-lead through the second mile, posting a blistering 9:12. Teammates Murphy and Buck Logan caught Eichner after three miles, while Yale's Peter Wehrwein took over first place. Meanwhile, Harvard's Peter Johnson, and Noel Scidmore began motoring by blue-and-orange jerseys...
...that was all Yale won. Eichner and Logan followed the leaders home, third and fourth respectively, while Scidmore took seventh, ten seconds ahead of Yale's second man. Finishing 11th, Johnson rounded out the Crimson scoring...
...figured our top three could beat out either Yale's or Princeton's," McCurdy said. "The meet rested on whether our second line would be enough to stand up to the others and they really came through. This was our strongest effort as a team all year without a doubt...