Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, Hatfield has enlisted some labor support by opposing right-to-work legislation and a move to transfer the state insurance compensation program to private operation. As a result, the state A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive committee voted to endorse him this year; though the normally pro-Democratic A.F.L.-C.I.O. state convention decided to make no endorsement. Hatfield regards the standoff as a "moral victory...
There was a scuffle, and Kelly played it for all he was worth. Cried he to one of the tusslers: "Unhand me, sir." Romney's men tried to persuade the management to toss Kelly out-or at least to transfer him to another room, preferably in the basement. But Kelly would not budge...
...impossible to measure success by the accomplishment or failure of one campaign. When a people has been sealed into a hotbox world for centuries, unexposed to the real fruits of ambition, their progress toward equality must be determined on a smaller scale. If a child decides to transfer to a "white" high school, or a group of people really begins to understand that it was not born different but made so, then you have accomplished something. If you can teach them that they can gain equality by working for it then the visible signs of progress are sure to come...
...Corona, Calif., Elizabeth ("Ma ") Duncan, 58, waited in women's prison for transfer to San Quentin, where she was scheduled to die in a gas chamber for being so jealous of the 30-year-old nurse who married her son that she hired two thugs to kill the bride...
...Ernest Hemingway (who does, however, earn a boy's stern moral disapproval as "one of the crowd of degenerate Americans who settled . . . in Paris after the war"). Dreiser's English is "bum," and John Dos Passos rouses a boy's puritanism with the "unalleviatedly filthy" Manhattan Transfer...