Word: ten-man
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been civil rights. He has directed much criticism towards the discriminatory practices of the building trades unions and Meany is a past president of the plumbers union. One of the first open battles Meany and Reuther had concerned the Civil Rights March in 1963. Reuther served on the ten-man committee directing the March. The executive council of the AFL under Meany's control withheld endorsement of the March. Reuther attacked Meany's statement as "so anemic that you'd have to give it a blood tranfusion to keep it alive on its way to the mimeograph machine...
...guard against frequent subversion attempts from the North, Park maintains a 600,000-man army along the 151-mile, tense demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas; they are backed up by 50,000 U.S. troops. Park has also sealed the border area with a high wooden fence and hundreds of "K.P.s," or killing posts, manned by ten-man teams of sharpshooters. Not even mail is permitted to pass. To catch agents who do slip through, bounty signs are scattered all over the country, offering 200,000 won (about $700) for the capture of enemy agents. "Become a patriot and become...
Nobody thought of activism or picketing or confrontation. What the ten-man committee wanted was rational discussion of issues in a calm, gentlemanly way. In November they issued a 16-page pamphlet entitled "Report on Bicker and Proposals for Change." It outlined their ideas for changing Bicker and told why they wanted it changed. It influenced a lot of people. The committee took a poll and found that a little less than 40 per cent of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes agreed with their proposal...
Mobutu turned all the company's copper-mining installations and other assets over to a new Congolese company, gave it a ten-man board of directors composed entirely of Congolese, and made the Congolese government the majority stockholder. He thus precipitated a crisis that, if allowed to develop, could plunge the Congo into economic and political chaos. "If we have to go hungry to be free and independent," he said, "then we'll go hungry. We prefer to remain poor and free to being rich slaves...
...State Department has named John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, to a new ten-man advisory panel on China...