Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase except one based on overtime. The 77-year-old Stamford plant had accepted a wartime maintenance of membership contract under protest. Now, labor leaders charged, the company was trying to "bust the union." (Rather than recognize a union, Yale & Towne closed its Detroit plant after a prolonged sit-down strike...
...Those poor scums say they are going to picket my place every day that I sit in the Senate. I told them the other day they might as well get ready for 13 more years, because I have one more year to serve under my present term, and I intend to run for re-election two more times...
...present production is a charming one to look at, a fairly good one to sit through. Raymond Massey is a little too heavy as the professor, Melville Cooper a little too broad as Eliza's drinking dustman of a father. But Gertrude Lawrence as Eliza, if not quite pathetic enough in her serious scenes, shows enormous vivacity in her comedy ones. Between them, she and Shaw provide a merry evening...
...lost among the celebrities and the Hoosiers. "You know, Hoosiers," explained Condon, himself the ninth child of an Indiana saloonkeeper: "the Paramount-once-a-week, glass-top-bus crowd. They stick around hoping to get into a picture. I don't mind the Hoosiers. They can come down, sit down, shut up, drink and get charged...
...found himself loading cargo, eating slop and doing soogie moogie (scrubbing paint work) with a crew as oddly assorted as flotsam & jetsam on a beach. There was a union-conscious Portuguese named Perry. "His cross eyes seemed to set the motive for all his movement-when he'd sit down, he'd cross his legs, cross his arms . . . . I never saw him standing with his legs straight...