Word: whitecollar
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Then, costumed summer and winter in seersucker suits and tennis shoes, he hustled around looking for some reality. He took up yoga, and did deep-breathing exercises. He went south for a while to accomplish reforms, but gave it up. He returned to New York, lived in a "whitecollar flophouse" on West 54th Street, and said he was going to get a job. If not, would he take money from relatives? "Certainly not," he said. "I'll go on relief...
...children finish high school, only one out of five who finish high school goes to college. But most of the 25,000 U.S. high schools were still acting as if all their kids intended to go to college. Studebaker believes that educational reverence for the "whitecollar myth" produces frustrated and maladjusted citizens. Why not frankly admit that most girls would be housekeepers and most men mechanics, farmers and tradespeople-and train them accordingly...
...Pontypool, Monmouthshire rejected 24-year-old "Workingman Tory" Peter Welch (his father is a local coal merchant who still drives his cart through town) by 14,198 votes, a 26% loss for Labor since last year's national election. Labor also won only limited victories in the whitecollar, middle-class suburb of Bexley (loss since 1945: 84%) and in blitz-shattered, slum-infested North Battersea (loss...
...Senate subcommittee came John Alessi, 43, of Brooklyn. Mr. Alessi, a gaunt, nervous man of Italian descent, drives a truck for New York City's Sanitation Department. He is the father of three, and wore, fittingly, a white collar in his appearance before the committee, which is investigating "whitecollar" working conditions. He was supposed to be just a minor witness, to illustrate the ponderous cost-of-living figures spread before the committee by C.I.O. president Phil Murray. But Mr. Alessi stole the show. He has had a bad time of it ever since 1929. Now things are worse...
...This is for that legion of downy-faced kids, embryo 'whitecollar' workers, who were sitting around every office in New York about a year...