Word: wi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puttin' on a wee drap o' music an' drama, ye ken," explained a kilted Scot, "but yer no' gettin' awa' wi' it all as a gift...
...American Indian painting, were mostly bright, flat watercolors of tribal life and lore, like the prizewinning Dakota Duck Hunt by a Dakota Sioux named Oscar Howe. Jemez Indian José Rey Toledo entered a thoroughly detailed illustration of the sacred Zuñi Shalako dance, but Ma-Pe-Wi, a Zia Pueblo, forbidden by his tribe to paint ceremonials, contented himself with a cocktail-bar rendering of a buffalo hunt...
...Wi Ya Hus?" New jargon was springing up everywhere. In San Francisco the word "boodles" was used both as a noun and a verb-and could mean anything under the sun. In Charleston, S. C., where dyeing the forelock was all the rage, kids greeted each other by crying, "Wi...
Last week PreWi got deeply involved in union trouble. The trouble began in New York where 46 employes, a sixth of Pre-Wi's staff, were laid off in a postwar economy retrenchment. (PreWi's traffic had slumped from its wartime peak of 430,000 words a day.) The C.I.O.'s American Communications Association promptly pulled the rest out on strike. Its contention: the company should have arbitrated the layoffs in advance...
This frank pressure play against Pre-Wi's 13 stockholders* was roundly denounced as "private censorship of news" by labor's faithful friend, the American Civil Liberties Union...