Word: whets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite Administration efforts to picture the contract as a victory for restraint, the Teamsters' fat settlement could whet the appetite of other unions in this year of heavy labor bargaining. The United Rubber Workers' contracts expire this weekend, and, says Union President Peter Bommarito, "Our settlement will have to go over the guidelines...
Those precautions served only to whet journalistic appetites. Dozens of reporters tried to come up with the book's contents, without success. But ABC News cameras were allowed ten days ago to film the interior of the printing plant on the condition that its location not be revealed. TIME, which had made an offer for magazine rights to the book, attempted to determine the highlights of its contents by talking to some of those who were familiar with the work. Lipscomb two weeks ago offered to confirm or deny some details TIME had learned, but changed his mind after...
...bosky dell, the playwright's words linger in the air like ineffable music. Shakespeare seems to extol a gentle harmony in nature, which he feels that gods, kings, lovers and men of common clay would do well to emulate. A shrewd judge of audiences, he sows discord to whet the appetite for concord...
...cases of his 14-year career as a prosecutor. The first of these -the charge that Hearst was a willing participant in the Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery in San Francisco-brought Browning into court last week against famed Defense Lawyer F. Lee Bailey. It was an encounter to whet courthouse appetites. "Browning versus Bailey?" remarked a San Francisco attorney. "The only question is what school Patty will enroll in next year. Bailey will...
...been begging for years to sing it at the Met. So far, he has had to settle for a staged performance in New Orleans last October and two concert versions. While the opera may not be rich enough to justify the cost of a Met revival, this LP does whet the appetite for the whole thing on records, at least. Tucker at 60 continues to project vi brant, tensible tenor strength...