Word: valid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President treated as valid the union claims that there had been no real effort toward bargaining about holidays, expenses, overtime and the like by the carriers. "I appreciate your patience," he told the union men. "Give me time," he begged. "Please give me time." Continued he, looking squarely at the union leaders: "I'm new on this job. I'm coming to you now for the first time. I urge you to give me the opportunity to give you good-faith bargaining. I will personally promise to ride herd over the negotiations and see that there is good...
...exhibitionist at the corner of Chestnut and Elm streets is more significant than the lovely woman with a bar of sunlight in her hair, putting a fresh piece of cuttlebone in the nightingale's cage." > A drunken Episcopal priest who has forgotten his liturgy may utter a valid prayer: "Let us pray for all those killed or cruelly wounded on thruways, expressways, freeways, and turnpikes. Let us pray for all those burned to death in faulty plane landings, mid-air collisions and mountainside crashes. Let us pray for all those wounded by rotary lawn mowers, chain saws, electric hedge...
...GRAHAM replies: I don't believe Mr. Brooks' points are valid, most simply because an Ivy tournament would not necessitate withdrawing from the Easterns. Harvard teams competed in two tournaments--the New England AAU and the Easterns a week later--for most of the last decade, and they could do so again. My own suggestion was that the top two winners in each class at the Ivy meet should go on to the Easterns...
...Denver's Champion Ticket Writer James ("Buster") Snider set out to add another notch to his pad. Some notch. The driver turned out to be Defeated Champion Sonny Listen, who just hours before had been happily modeling hats with his wife. Sadly, Sonny did not have a valid Colorado driver's license...
...film is a "zany romantic comedy" which conveys "a feeling of Americana, camaraderie, and youthful adventure." "It has been likened," he continues modestly, "to a combination of Huckleberry Finn, the Marx brothers, Douglas Fairbanks, and the works of D.W. Griffith." I wish I could say that the comparisons are valid, for such a combination, I feel sure, would be delightful indeed; but the fact is I found Hallelujah the Hills intensely boring...