Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closes his eyes to the printer's serial, "The Arizona Kid," and monopolizes the woman who the poor dreamer worships from afar. But Renoir slips a little social message into the revenge against this meany; the printer and his fellow workers triumph by taking over and collectivizing the printing shop, bringing the "Arizona" serial to predictible fame and fortune. The story ends sadly, but with all the unsentimental humanity that ennobled almost everything Renoir touched...
Weil's resolve to share the material and psychological hardships of what she called society's "afflicted" led her, three years after receiving her teacher's certificate, to go through a year of factory work in an electrical shop and a Renault plant in Paris. Finding that she needed to train her body to operate like a machine to meet "piece-work" quotas, giving her neither time nor energy to think or reflect, Weil began to change all her notions about the chance of worker resistance and solidarity. She found that the oppressive conditions, instead of reinforcing her ideological belief...
Sylvia Gallagher, union shop steward in the Eliot House dining hall and one of the workers who has complained to the MESD, said yesterday that she refused a part-time job the University offered her because it would have involved working during the weekend and during mornings, when she would have had difficulty finding a baby-sitter...
Gallagher helped organize the emergency meeting of members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union after Buford M. Simpson, manager of the College dining hall, allegedly threatened to fire Alan Balsam, Local 26's chief shop steward at Harvard...
...Aquino had asked the G.I.s how they would get home "now that your ships are sunk," she was convicted of treason in 1949 after her return to the U.S. She served more than six years in prison, then moved to Chicago where she has been managing an Oriental import shop. Three times she has asked for a presidential pardon-"a measure of vindication." On his last full day as President, Gerald Ford agreed and granted D'Aquino, now 60, a "full and unconditional" pardon on the grounds that it was "the right thing to do and the proper time...