Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear. The auto workers, electrical workers and rubber workers, to say nothing of John Lewis' coal miners, had been sitting back waiting to see what the board's findings would be. Now that they saw them, they would also have to make up their minds which way to jump. But the nation, only last week facing a strangling strike of 500,000 men in steel, momentarily could breathe a little more easily. It had before it, in the board's report, a comprehensive formula for peace...
What he was trying to sell, he explained, was a middle way. Said Drummer Taft: "There is a middle way. We need not agree with those who want government to run their daily lives and look after the welfare of every citizen to the destruction of individual liberty and incentive and progress. On the other hand, we need not agree with those who refuse any interest on the part of the Federal Government...
Like the unhappy inhabitants of Bird in Hand, Pa., and Kissimmee, Fla., the citizens of Mahwah, N.J. were getting sick & tired of the indignities directed their way. The name was not quite as bad as Dogpatch or Skunk Hollow, but it was not even granted the same recognition. When Mahwah appeared on envelopes, mail sorters sighed patiently, made a correction and directed the letter to Rahway or Mohawk. Last week the aroused businessmen of Mahwah took a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times to set people straight about their town...
...gulls and looked down to see the lights of beachside restaurants and hotels. A woman was walking down a long, straight road. "Madame," called Joseph politely, "s'il vous plait, l'Angleterre ici?" The Englishwoman looked up. "Oui, monsieur," she answered and continued steadily on her way...
...happy arrangement. The police gave the balloonist a night's lodging. The London paper offered to telephone his wife and pay his way back to Belgium in return for an exclusive story. "I accepted," said van der Straeten, "and suddenly learned just what journalism is-six parts money and four parts acrobatics." The acrobatics began the next day. When the other reporters arrived, the Daily Express men shoved him from one room to another and jammed him into closets to hide him from their rivals. "I need," said proud Joseph van der Straeten, home at last in Knocke...