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...analyze the movement to discover whether there are dangerous seeds within. One of the most recent analyses, an article by Max Ascoli in Commonweal, credited the growth of these periodicals to the Italians' desire to give vent to their restlessness now that they are no longer under the thumb of Mussolini...
...pony edition . . . . is trotted around among our friends and acquaintances, and when at length it returns to its stall, it is dog-eared and thumb-worn, which while distressing to the eye is most gratifying to the heart. We know it has been well read...
When it was over, an odd jubilance seemed to possess the dissolving crowds, as though they had seen some greatness in themselves mirrored out in the street. At the reviewing stand Slim Jim Gavin, relaxing at last, touched thumb and forefinger lightly into a circle to tell what he thought of the men who had marched behind...
...Westinghouse research scientists, in the process of making, testing and rejecting uranium for lamp filaments, had developed an efficient method for extracting and refining uranium. Their metal was the purest available, and an occasional dribble of thumb-size pellets filled the modest requirements of college and research laboratories. Then the telephone call came. Dr. Harvey C. Rentschler and Dr. John W. Harden were not dismayed...
Reuther: When a bunch of workers asks for their share you thumb your nose at them, tell them to go to hell, refuse to conciliate, refuse to bargain, refuse to negotiate, refuse to arbitrate. That is the way you do it. You are asking for a fight and, brother, you are going to get it, and if it is the last thing we do, brother, we are going to sweat this one out to the bitter end. . . The whole American labor movement is behind us. We are backed to the last goddam inch...