Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...N.F.T.W., which had started without sufficient strength, money or appreciation of the company's ability to keep the phones going, was desperately sending up trial balloons. It would be glad to take a $6-a-week wage boost and arbitrate everything else. Picket-line tension grew. In Detroit two strikers were injured and 22 arrested after a battle with police and nonstrikers reporting for work. In Milwaukee, one fun-loving picket paraded tauntingly in a baby buggy as a miserly "Ma Bell...
...stronger U.S. policy had helped the Foreign Ministers Conference, too. The Moscow sessions were still bumping along (see below), but the old tension was gone. Everyone knew that the U.S. would not make major concessions which would tend to equalize Soviet and U.S. strength-because in such equalization lay the danger...
...Biscuit? To decrease international tension caused by misunderstanding, representatives of some 500 U.S. organizations (the exact figure was undetermined) met in Philadelphia last week. They had been asked to advise the U.S. delegates to UNESCO. The meeting was the strangest infusion of brotherhood since William Penn came there to found "a greene Country Towne" in 1682-or at least since Karl Marx's First International broke up there...
...Command, Allied Powers) probably saved the conservative Yoshida Government (the strike's real target), but it also pushed labor toward the left-and persuaded many unionists that MacArthur had developed a filicidal anti-union bent. Since then, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's failure to curb inflation has increased tension, and has confronted SCAP with a set of unattractive alternatives: 1) to abandon all strike control and risk governmental and production collapse; 2) to take over immediately full economic direction of Japan, thus puppetizing the government; or 3) to invoke drastic measures to prevent all strikes, in violation...
...drama and tension of a pulp magazine sports thriller was translated into fact at the Boston Arena Saturday night, when substitute forward John Noble scored three points in the last 59 seconds of play to give the Varsity basketball team a 46 to 42 victory over Yale before 4092 near-hysteric patrons...