Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started at 17, putting lids on cans of stew at Armour and Co., where she joined the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen. In 1954 she became the first woman president of a packinghouse local; later she was appointed one of the meat cutters' five international representatives, and in 1974 director of its new Women's Department. The same year she was elected vice president of the new Coalition of Labor Union Women. She has persuaded the industry to promote women to more demanding, previously "male" jobs and convinced many skeptical women that they could perform them. Now, notes Wyatt...
...proposed boost in the taxes on commuters to the city was batted down by upstate Republicans; a sales-tax increase (from 8% to 9% in the city) was rejected by city Democrats. In desperation, the legislators began to concoct what Senate Majority Leader Warren Anderson called a "bouillabaisse": a stew of taxes that added up to $205 million at the risk of offending most consumers in the city. In addition to an increase in the city income tax, the plan included higher levies on banks, automobiles and cigarettes, and new taxes on barbershops, beauty parlors and massage parlors. After...
Alfred E. Vellucci is a consummate political chef--every two years he stirs the ethnic stew of East Cambridge and gets re-elected to the Cambridge City Council The secret, says Vellucci, is Harvard--the most obvious representative of untaxed wealth, power and privilege in Cambridge, and an easy target for Vellucci when he feels like being a populist demagogue--"I ask people on the street, do you hate Harvard? They say yes, so I say vote for me, I hate Harvard...
...welcome any sea duty as a way to escape from royal protocol. On the Bronington, however, Charles may long to be a landlubber again. Explains Kelly Green, 23, a cook on the ship: "She is old and rocks a lot. In a gale I put a pot of stew on and tie it to the top of the stove. Nobody eats it anyway. Everybody gets seasick...
Relieved to have escaped from Saigon and amused at the oddities of American barracks life, the Vietnamese stood patiently in line to receive rice, meat stew and bread served on paper plates, and milk. In the separate huts, men and women, the elderly and the very young, Americans and Vietnamese were thrown together with no privacy. Most preferred to be outside, chatting with friends, watching children play on the swings, or strolling among the huts. "I don't feel good about leaving Viet Nam," said Mrs. Gene Till, the pretty Vietnamese wife of an American computer programmer...