Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes home to dinner anybody he happens to be working with. Home is what he calls "a good proletarian penthouse" on unfashionable West Sixteenth Street. (Says Dubinsky: "I never tell reporters, because right away they say, 'aha, a labor leader lives in a penthouse,' as though a labor leader shouldn't be comfortable.") He pays $190 a month rent, lives there with his wife, their divorced daughter and her child Ryna, who is the apple of her grandfather's eye. The rooms are crowded with pictures, antiques, and knickknacks. Waving his hand, Dubinsky explains...
Handsome, auburn-haired Emma Dubinsky keeps a sharp eye on her husband's occasional extravagances, and reminds him that though he may be a demigod at the office, he is just a husband at home. Recently, the I.L.G.W.U. bought Dubinsky a Cadillac. He is delighted with it, but Emma Dubinsky is wary. "That's all we need," she says. "Dubinsky with a liveried chauffeur...
...crop Aroostookians agreed to cut their acreage by one-fourth-though the Department of Agriculture insists that farmers are growing almost as many spuds, on less land, by planting the rows a little closer together and piling on the DDT and fertilizer. Aroostookians had themselves persuaded Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan to cut the support price from 90% to 60%, they say. But the House has put it back up to 90%. The big potato grab wasn't over...
...Other Laborite headlines: "Stop the Sneers," "Warning to Americans," "They Are Slinging Mud at Britain." Tory Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express had its own summary of these goings-on, and it was all but unique in Britain: "Judging by the undignified outburst of hysterical resentment...it looks as though all we can take today is dollars. But criticism? Never...
...while it looked as though Finland's time had come once more. It was the only country on Russia's European border that had not yet been reduced to satellite status; since war's end, the doughty Finns had lived uneasily on Russian "tolerance." Last week, the Finnish Communists made a bid for power...