Word: shops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writhed and rolled in the sand: twitching and groaning. One believer pointed at another, yelling, "The evil god Exu has entered into him." then splashed a bottle of alcohol over him, touched it off with a candle, and watched his blazing victim run shrieking through the crowds. A young shop clerk, possessed by the spirit of the amorous Indian god Arruda, wrestled a pretty woman to the ground, died when her husband emptied his .45 into him. The next morning the beaches were littered with grisly debris-fetishes and bottles, blood, clothing, and the occasional headless carcass of a sacrificed...
...engineers must be pilot-trained to serve in jets, agreed instead to place a third pilot in its DC-8s, which will go into service next year. The line boosted the engineers' average annual pay by $1,200 to a top of $13,260, consented to an "agency shop" clause under which all engineers must pay union dues...
...month since the fall of Premier Ahmed Balafrej's conservative government, the King had been forced to shop intensively for a Cabinet that would somehow maintain his nation's delicate balance between extremes. Twice the King rejected Cabinets that he considered too far to the left, but last week he agreed to a government headed by slight, shy Abdallah Ibrahim, who is as left as they come...
...paper at the California State Prison at Folsom, reporters must be checked through as many as four inside gates in chase of a story. San Quentin's News has not etched its own engravings in years-not since some handsome counterfeit currency was traced to the prison print shop...
...granting white-collar workers the increases given to unions; e.g., General Motors, Ford and Chrysler handed about the same increase to office workers in May that the U.A.W. finally got in the fall. Another is that the white collar worker often feels little kinship with the man in the shop. Since he works more with his head than his hands, he tends to identify himself with management. Still another problem for unions is the growing number of women workers, who often work only part time to supplement family incomes, are more interested in their homes than in their jobs...