Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liked formal education even less than Henry, spent only a year at Princeton. After his draft board rejected him (he is virtually blind in one eye), he managed to enlist anyway, ended up as a lieutenant. .Billy, 20, was in the Navy's V-5 program, likes to tinker with motors more than the other boys, plans to attend Yale before he joins up with his brothers. By that time, Young Henry's gamble may be won-or lost. These days Young Henry is quite certain that it will be won, that the troubled labor relations that harried...
General Murray gave his first order: stop this business of trying to tinker with the country's economic system and get on with the old-fashioned union business of getting higher wages for workers. There was nothing in the current troubles on the labor front that more money in the pay envelope would not cure...
...corn of the Republic and the leaders of tomorrow." Besides, "if you draft Negro boys into the army, give them three good meals a day, a good uniform and let them shoot craps and drink liquor around the barracks for a year, they won't be worth a tinker's damn thereafter...
...Black has devoted six years to developing his technique. But he wants to tinker with the instrument at least another year before submitting it for general...
...Caldwell went out into the snowstorm, began to tinker with the television antenna. He made a discovery which so electrified him that last week he announced it in a press release: ELECTRIFIED SNOW FALLS IN CONNECTICUT...