Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against G.M. or Ford or Chrysler the auto workers have usually shown a solid front. But in their sprawling union's internal affairs U.A.W. members have seldom been united...
Decision & Reaction. Next day, the striking local held a meeting, decided that it liked the Davis tactic of mass picketing -and the courts be damned. Next morning more than 1,400 pickets formed a solid wall around the plant. Acting Sheriff William J. Morrow talked with union leaders, asked them not to force his hand...
...over Britain, miners returning from the war were refusing to go back to the mines. Men already there were too old (average age: over 50) and too hungry for efficient production. They worked while solid rations lasted; on Thursdays and Fridays, when there was very little to eat, they played hookey. In the last quarter of 1945, 10% of them were persistent absentees. That was equivalent to a loss of 20 million tons of coal a year; and in a world starving for coal 20 million tons would go a long way towards achieving the huge expansion of export trade...
Even when he goes in for dialectal ditties, much of the Kaye piquancy depends upon rapid enunciation. In Babbitt and the Bromide, he summarizes a meeting of two "solid citizens" with: "Hello," "How are you?" "Howza folks?" "What's new?" "I'm great." "That's good." "Ha, ha." "Knock wood...
...greater civic asset than Buffalo Bill alive with one foot on the Albany Hotel bar rail. Within an hour Bill's widow accepted the city's offer of a fine free burial on Lookout Mountain. (It took five months to bore a grave in the solid rock; Denver embalmers called on all their cunning to keep Bill looking...