Word: welder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight hours every day, says Henry Belcher, a 40-year-old welder, "I am as much a machine as a punch press or a drill motor is." With that comment, he sums up a crucial reason for the autoworker militancy that led to the strike against General Motors. Most of the men on the assembly line hate their jobs-with a bitterness that can hardly be understood by anybody who performs interesting tasks in comfortable surroundings. At best, reports TIME'S Correspondent David DeVoss, the auto worker's routine is a daily voyage from tedium to apathy, dominated...
...policeman allegedly started to push into the crowded poolroom but was shoved back. More cops arrived. Suddenly they sprayed Gipson and two bystanders, Adolph Banks, 27, a welder, and James Henley, an insurance salesman, with Mace. All three were arrested...
...live with an East Village junkie. She is not there when her father goes to her apartment, but he gets into an argument with her boy friend and inadvertently beats him to death. He staggers into a local bar where Joe (Peter Boyle), a $160-a-week welder, is holding forth. When Joe finally screams, "I'd like to kill one of them!", Compton looks up and whispers, "I just did." Joe later realizes that Compton was serious. He looks him up-not to blackmail him but to idolize him. "There's plenty of people," says...
...HINDOO CONTINENCE and could, especially very late on nights of Turkish excursion in the bathtub, stay awake and hard as grain inside Merilee for an hour or more. Sam claimed to be much taken with the Method, but Merilee sensed her Sam was a drummer and banger and welder and breaker and she admitted to herself Gangola Method was not ever going to become the Sole Trick in her Sam's Bag. That was OK too. Love makes us love in our lovers what we don't love in anybody else or even in ourselves...