Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which miners were paid an average $1.48 per hour. Average pay of other industrial workers - iron & steel: $1.24 (40-hour week); autos: $1.37 (39-hour week). *A Colonial antique, now badly in need of a coat of paint. *More or less from As You Like It: "A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favored thing, sir, but mine...
...Bridges had sent his organizers from San Francisco to Hawaii to sweep in recruits for his maritime union. It was virgin territory. Bridges' men also took in pineapple-plantation workers and a smattering of railroad workers, cannery workers, truck drivers. But their busiest field was the sugar plantations. They signed up plantation hands by the thousands in a heterogeneous organization that soon began to look like John L. Lewis' District...
...long ago, Minister Fiderkiewicz (called "Fido" in Ottawa) decided to ship the treasures back to Poland. He sent the custodian of the collection, Dr. Stanislaw Swierz-Zaleski, to pick up the cases at the Ottawa convent. To the nun behind the grill Dr. Zaleski mumbled the secret password: "Holy Virgin of Czestochowa." The nun looked surprised. Only a few days before, a man "with a tumor on his ear" had appeared at the convent. He too had pronounced the secret password-and she had given him the treasures...
...Says Davies (who objects to orthodox Christianity and especially the Apostles' Creed as inadequate): "The Creed goes: '. . . Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. . . .' The comma between those two phrases is the most important part of Christ's life. After all, the life of Christ is something more than a punctuation mark...
...national flower of Bolivia is the kantuta, bell-shaped and scarlet. The Incas said the flower first blossomed from the blood dropped by a Virgin of the Sun God, beloved by a prince and slain by the trick of a jealous witch. Spring came cold and dark to lofty Bolivia, but nobody recalled more beautiful kantutas. It was, Bolivians said, as if all the blood shed this year were reappearing as flowers...