Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five hundred glum pickets ring the plants of the big-four packing houses. Wrapped in heavy clothing, they huddle around bonfires, crowd into hastily built shacks and drink coffee out of big kettles heated on bonfires. They jump around, swinging their big arms to keep warm. The bar in the union hall locked up its whiskey and beer 'for the duration,' sells only coke and tomato juice. If a drunk appears on the picket line he is yanked out, hauled home, cussed...
Friendship on the Line. In many struck plants, relations between pickets and management were cordial. When rain and snow fell outside the giant aluminum plants at Alcoa, Tenn., the two pickets at each gate ducked into the warm guardhouses, chatted with the guards and company officials...
...imagine what a man thinks about while he is in the hole or on the windy hill, or even in the cages trying to keep warm. Most of them think: 'Damn the Army, damn Truman, damn the U.S.' They get to hate their own country and their own people. They say: 'I hope we get into another war. ... I want to fight on the enemy's side.' I've heard men use these words. These are the men we are supposed to be teaching the principles of democracy...
...Cornwall, Ontario, 40 carpenters quit their jobs because management did not provide enough fires to keep them warm in the bitter weather, but they returned to work next...
...failing more irksome on reflection than apparent on sight, is perhaps a symptom of the in growth of prejudice, in this instance to the very actors, or the director. A strained match between Howard and Alice seems to be justification enough for several chilly kisses, while the warm and central love between Nevvy and Brett finds itself in words only, even in proposing marriage...