Word: stints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit to Germany taught him that unions become extinct under dictatorships. His stint as a tool & die maker in Russia's famed Gorky automobile plant taught him that unions thrive only where there is free speech. He returned to Detroit just as the U.A.W. was organizing, in 1935. Naturally, he joined...
After a year in New York and Washington, Linen was sent overseas to inspect and coordinate O.W.I.'s outposts in the Eastern Mediterranean and India. For eight months he shuttled around among Algiers, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and New Delhi - then came home for a brief stint in O.W.I.'s Washington headquarters...
...obscurity and the absence of stormy petrels were assets, the new Kanellopoulos I Cabinet was a masterpiece. The Premier himself had done a year's stint as Vice Premier in the wartime government in exile, but most of his Ministers were just names to the Greek in the street. Possibly this was just as well: the new Cabinet's job is to govern Greece only until the national elections, still tentatively...
...against Japan. Last week Prime Minister Attlee promised to wage it without stint...
...Admiral has fought in five big & little wars and served his nation without stint. In 1938, turning his cold eyes straight on the Axis powers, with whom the U.S. was then at peace, he had told the House Naval Affairs Committee: "In defending our territory in war, we cannot assume an attitude of passive defense." A year later he told Congress bluntly that the best reason for building bigger battleships was that other nations were building them. He long ago saw the inevitability of another...