Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only respectable playing all afternoon came from Crimson pitcher Wally Cook. This unfortunate, although touched for nine hits in seven innings, permitted the opposition only one earned run. However, the support afforded him by his teammates made the job almost impossible...
DeGuglielmo said that his campaign has already brought him messages of congratulation and approval from many Cambridge citizens, especially parents. He also appears to have won some Council support for his drive, though other Councilors have expressed a desire to hear what pinball operators have to say in defense of the machines...
...offered a revised bill deleting the Secretary of Labor's injunctive powers, but leaving in such guarantees as freedom from arbitrary dues and assessments, and protection of the individual's right to sue to secure union freedoms. Neither rueful John McClellan nor any other Southerner refused to support the changes. When the vote was taken, only G.O.P. conservatives and Ohio's Democratic Conservative Frank Lausche held out; the amendment passed 77-14. Two-and-a-half hours later, after nine days of debate, the revised Kennedy bill passed 90-1, with only Diehard Barry Goldwater voting against...
...better off," said one worker. "Wage increases are as useless as fuzz on a frog," said another. Instead of higher wages, says Lubell, many steelworkers would prefer "additional fringe benefits, such as expanded hospitalization, paid-up insurance, and-the one demand with the strongest support-a lower retirement age with more generous pensions...
Dining at Maxim's in Paris on her tenth wedding anniversary, high-strung Operatic Soprano Maria Callas, 35, made a pronouncement between helpings of selle d'agneau à la Callas. Manhattan-born Singer Callas attributed most of her professional success to the offstage support of her Milan tycoon husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, 64: "When I met him I was the most ridiculous singer of Italy, and he, a wealthy industrialist who owned 20 building-material plants, said, 'You have the most beautiful voice in the world,' and-thanks to his tenacity, his persuasion and his constant...