Word: vim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Louis Lucas, a major grower of table grapes in Chavez's California base in Delano, said of Shultz's plan: "I think he is on the right track" vim But the United Automobile Workers' Walter Reuther found "no moral or economic justification" for separating farm workers-from NLRB coverage. Reuther, a longtime supporter of Chavez, complained: "The Farm Labor Relations Board proposed by the Secretary would operate under law so filled with exclusions and fishhooks as to render it meaningless. We call on the President to reconsider his position." In dozens of cities around the U.S. last...
Shades of Henry VIM...
...great mass of white voters in Gary and Cleveland," observed Psephologist Richard Scammon, "voted white, not Republican or Democratic." And CORE'S Floyd McKissick, in discussing Cleveland and Gary, pointed out: "A black man is still black and the parties do not support black candidates with the same vim, vigor and vitality that they do white candidates...
...right to the place that Cornelius Shields was forced to vacate after a near-fatal heart attack. The 1958 campaign must stand as Bus's finest season, despite what might happen this fall, for only against great adversity is a man truly tested. Bus did something to Vim and her crew that is rare in the annals of yachting. He took a boat that was hopelessly outclassed by 19 years of technological advances in the field of hull design and breathed a life into her that made Vim the boat to beat. He took a crew...
...opponent aboard Columbia was Briggs Cunningham, 60, who skippered her to a cup victory over Britain's out classed Sceptre in 1958 - after barely beating Mosbacher's older, slower Vim in the final U.S. trials. That was the year that Mosbacher invented the "tail chasing" start. While the two boats were jockeying for position, Bus kept Vim's bow practically on top of Columbia's transom. Columbia could neither jibe nor tack without fouling Vim. Not until Mosbacher broke off for the starting line could Cunningham swing into action. By then, Vim was precious seconds...