Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frown begins with a line biting deep into the bridge of the broad nose. Thin, pale lips turn thinner, paler. Behind black-rimmed glasses, eyes glow with a suggestion of banked-and therefore controlled -inner fires. The voice takes over from the frown. Deep and strong ("I have always had a commanding voice"), it needs no microphone to help it carry. Questions come slowly, in careful Southern cadence. In the voice, as if measured carefully by the tapping of a finger on a mahogany table, are righteousness and rebuke, sarcasm and sadness, incredulity and indignation. Never is there unrestrained anger...
...fundamental U.S. proposition: that labor and management, through their mutually honest efforts at collective bargaining, shall both thrive in a free economy. It was to correct a management-weighted imbalance that the Wagner Labor Relations act (John McClellan voted for it) was passed in 1935. But that, in turn, created an equally oppressive, labor-weighted imbalance that even the Taft-Hartley law (McClellan voted for it, too) failed to remedy. Unchecked by restraining laws, some labor leaders became racketeers and some racketeers became labor leaders, using their vast economic powers against management, unionism, and society itself...
...Master of My Soul." That nearly did it. "There's not a man in the world," says an intimate friend, "with more excuse to throw up his hands and turn all his problems over to alcohol than John McClellan." McClellan did just that, and it nearly broke up his marriage to Norma. Finally he turned in despair to a trusted adviser. "What will I do?" he asked. The stark, unqualified reply: "Lay off that bottle." John McClellan thought for a moment, then his face turned hard. Said he: "I'm going to show you that...
...active groups, there appears to be a constant attempt to impose the highest outside standards of excellence on the work of student organizations. Much of this drive for perfection is due, no doubt, to the expanding imaginations of the group leaders, who, in writing and in drama for example, turn to the Times and Broadway for their standards. And the tendency is furthered still by the critical student community that tends to judge College drama and original writing not as articles for indulgence but as productions that must measure up competitively to the work of real professionals...
...setting forth the American tactical claims, Morison attacked the assertion in Sir Arthur Bryant's newly-published book, The Turn of the Tide, that "all strategy issued from the massive brain of Sir Alan Brooke." He wrote that Bryant's book reflects "an abysmal ignorance of the war on his part ... while his remarks on the war in the Pacific are fantastic...