Word: wharf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd of a thousand angry A.F.L. men marching through the mist toward Pier 39. They were armed with two-by-fours, baseball bats wrapped in newspaper and lengths of chain. As they approached the pier, the shout went up: "Let's push those goddam Commies off the wharf! Let's get our men off the ship...
...Israel: a $3,000,000 wharf project at Haifa...
...went with a friend (who paid) to Venice, and stayed on there at the ex pense ' of one and another acquaintance for five years. When money was low, he slept in open boats and fought off the big wharf rats. When it was high, he spent it crazily, keeping his own gondola and dyeing his hair red. By fits and starts, he completed another novel, The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole. Without cease he wrote venomous letters to all his old ac quaintances demanding support. To one, in 1913, he wrote pathetically in a sudden break of tone...
...spear-carrier in a touring production of Shakespeare's Henry V when, some time in the 1880s he decided to "emerge from the murk and chaos and leap up on the stage of human affairs." His stage was the toughest strip of the Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said, "to peel the bark off a gum tree," or "galvanize ten dead bullocks to a trot." A gnomelike figure (5 ft. tall...
Billy was national head of three trade unions: the wharf laborers, the transport workers and the seamen. He talked like a radical, but by 1910 he was already demanding that Australia should have its own army & navy, and making speeches about the menace of Japan. That year, the Labor Party formed its first majority government, a cabinet consisting of two miners, a wharf lumper, a building worker, a hatter, a compositor, an engine driver and, of course, Billy Hughes. The cabinet split over World War I, and Hughes formed a national coalition government, pledged to aid Britain "to the last...