Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geco uranium mines in northwestern Ontario four years ago fresh from Ohio's Antioch College: "I was a complete stranger, carrying expensive luggage, who bore all too much resemblance to a run-of-the-mill college boy." Bowman soon developed "calluses over blisters," managed not to look "too slack alongside experienced and hardened pick-and-shovel...
...this would cost the industry no more than 12? an hour per man and would create 25,000 to 35,000 new jobs in basic steel." Employment, McDonald noted, has not risen as fast as production since the recession; consequently, his featherbedding idea would take up some of the slack. McDonald, who threatened a strike July1 if there is no new contract by then, also had words for Senator Estes Kefauver. The Senator had proposed that the union peg its wage demands to the average increase in steel productivity. Snapped Steelworker McDonald: "I wish Senator Kefauver would learn to keep...
...industry still had some slack left, but it was not enough to feel really comfortable, and steelmen were thinking of expanding once again. National Steel Corp. Chairman George Magoffm Humphrey and President Thomas E. Millsop announced that they will build the industry's biggest new finishing plant since U.S. Steel Corp. put up the $500 million Fairless Works (TIME...
Charles W. Slack, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology and director of the group, said that it will not use the "traditional doctor-patient relationship, which has been rather unsuccessful in the past, but rather an employer-employee relationship in which the volunteer as employer pays the delinquent as an experimental subject for his attendance...
...flashback confessional. It is a litany of lust and degradation. Eight years before, Temple had been kidnaped by a spiderish hoodlum named Popeye, kept six weeks in a Memphis brothel, and ''loved it." ("Nun" is a 19th century word for whore.) A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with an ex-lover's younger brother that Nancy pleads with her to break the cycle of evil...