Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite all the suffering, John Lewis was still king of the coal miners. "All we got, we owe to him," said a miner with finality. "Twenty years ago we worked 20 hours for $2; now we get $15 for eight, that's what." But the king, it was plain, was no longer above timid, hesitant reproach. It wasn't too safe to criticize him openly: the old men didn't dare risk being blackballed by the union; they were too near pension time. And a coal miner's wife in Cinderella, W. Va., who wrote...
...last week, the note was still unanswered, and Washington still did not know what to do. Such shilly-shallying in the face of Peiping's provocation stirred the good, grey New York Times to red-hot anger, which was shared by more & more Americans. Wrote the Times: "Able, honest, faithful and diligent public servants have been stranded in Communist China by our Micawber Far Eastern policy . . . We cannot afford, if we want to retain a shred of prestige anywhere in Asia, to let men such as Angus Ward . . . suffer any further contumely as martyrs to our inability to decide...
...Conservatives gained a bloody advantage. Liberals raged that the police fought for the Conservatives. By last week, counting their dead in the thousands, Liberal leaders concluded that they had no chance of a fair election. They withdrew their presidential candidate and ordered their followers to boycott the election. Then, still trying to follow constitutional procedures, a Liberal caucus decided to impeach the President in Congress for failure to keep democratic order, and informed him of its intention. Thirty minutes after learning that, Ospina struck...
...fame spread, and she was often called in for help and advice by Chinese officials. But one thing troubled her: her British passport seemed to her a symbol of pride. "I have given up my home and my parents for God," she told herself. "But I'm still different . . ." So she tore up her passport and became a Chinese citizen. The notice was posted on the doors of the town hall and everyone came to see it. "Then they knew I was truly one of them...
...gets so many new ones that the Farmer is already outgrowing the modern plant which Williams built for $100,000 in Montgomery last year. The Farmer carries little national advertising, yet made $55,000 last year. Since he has become a businessman himself, Williams takes a more kindly, if still somewhat scornful, attitude toward business than he did in the New Deal days. "Making money," says he, "is the easiest thing I ever tried...