Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voters were divided into packing shed workers and field workers. The Teamsters had a clear majority of support among the shed workers, most of whom were "Anglos," white Americans non-plussed by the NFWA's spirit of Mexican-American nationalism. Among the field-workers the NFWA counted on the support of most of the Mexican-Americans, but the large number of Japanese and Filipinos working for DiGiorgio were almost solidly for the Teamsters...
...gathered in Filipino Hall to await the results of the election. Chavez came to the front of the hall early in the afternoon and announced that by unofficial count the NFWA had won. Among the fieldworkers, the voters had gone almost two to one for the NFWA. In the shed, the NFWA made a surprisingly strong showing by capturing one-third of the ballots. Of the 1100 votes cast, only 19 were for "no union...
...leaves his village ("an island surrounded by Russia") for a new life beyond the Pale-the ghetto areas that the Czar designated for the Jews. He also leaves behind him the Law, takes off in a ramshackle, horse-drawn contraption for the future. He has shed everything but Spinoza, whom he had read by night in his ratty hut, and from whom he gleaned the notion that man is without history, God merely an idea in the mind of man, and man perhaps an idea in the mind...
...Tanglewood, in Lenox, Mass., summer home of the Boston Symphony and the most prestigious of U.S. music festivals. Besides the symphonies in Tanglewood's 6,037-seat open-air shed this summer, there will be a week-long Festival of Contemporary American Music, - Music including four world premieres...
Barrientos had been boss before: 20 months ago he overthrew a civilian President, promised that elections would follow. As the campaign began, he made it clear that he was his own favorite candidate. To improve his image he shed one of his wives, toned down his mercurial ways, and surrounded himself with topnotch advisers. Over the months, he went on to build a reputation as a firm-minded reformer by cleaning up the Communist-run tin union and creating a rare political stability...