Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is a fellow," testified Zakman with reluctant admiration, "that did everything wrong, and organized better than the rest of them ... He would just walk into a shop and pull the switch and say, 'Everybody out on strike.' He didn't believe in elections. He was a hard worker." Predictably, the organization of cab drivers failed, Zakman was eased out of the union, and Johnny Dio finished up in the driver's seat, using the union for his own devices...
...sharply etched picture of a disillusioned Communist and displaced labor-racket boy. Zakman also provided the rare commodity of humor in describing Union Organizer Benny ("The Bug") Ross: "There's a fellow who did everything wrong, but he organized better than all of them. He would just walk into a shop and pull the switch and say, 'O.K., everybody out. The place is on strike,' and they would all run out and sign up." There was an occasional virulent clash of words. New York's Senator Irving Ives blew up as a jug-eared Manhattan lawyer...
...church, since it has none of the corporate gifts of the Holy Spirit to the Church in its own right. To act as a family only seems so often impotent, to seek to do a churchly work may reveal only confusion and contradiction. So carefully must it walk...
...most important work on a play is done in the last 10 days--when the actors can actually feel the steps they have to walk on and the costumes they have to wear. There should always be at least four full dress rehearsals before the opening. But I find this is rarely possible in the United States. Over here you don't get the sets and costumes till the day before the opening--hence the necessity for out-of-town tryouts...
...think I lived here as a freshman. No end to poor taste," Vag observed sadly. As he did so, the Yale and his aquisition approached him on the walk. The Yale casually shouldered Vag to one side and strode past...