Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Czech political refugee has just sent us a letter telling of the continuing hunger for uncensored information behind the Iron Curtain. It reports how a small courageous group of Czechs still manages to get news from the outside world, despite the ban which was imposed on TIME, LIFE and 25 other foreign publications 18 months ago at the time of the Communist coup...
Next day, B. F. Goodrich offered 16,000 rubber workers a 10?-an-hour pension and insurance program. The Goodrich offer supplemented a small program already in force-one to which workers contributed. The rubber workers' union accepted and the workers ended a month-old strike. Then the International Harvester Co. offered 65,000 employees a 10?-an-hour welfare package-on condition that workers also kick in something...
Guns & Dynamite. The trouble reached to other rebellious patches of John L. Lewis' empire as picketing union miners tried to repair small defects in the weapon that had always served them best-a nationwide coal strike. A Hawkes Coal Co. tipple near Morgantown, Ky. was dynamited. In a lonely stretch of northwest Alabama, six brothers named Preskitt stocked their 150-ton-a-day strip mine with all the weapons they could find and waited grimly for something to happen...
Since that year a small student group--comprising the Harvard Skeet Team--has been traveling at least once a week to the Mayflower Skeet Club in Holliston to pop away at the pigeons...
...forthrightly, and earnestly. 'I work in a trade union. We try to keep people together. There are over 200 of us and we can't stand for any wishy-washy business. People are either for or against. We get rid of those who are against. Here there are a small group of vicious people trying to disrupt our delegation. There is another small group that is native. We came here for peace. Let's make decisions. There are too many disruptive points. Let's prevent it from recurring. Let's slap these people down--verbally, I mean. I'm fighting...