Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Workers, intellectuals and clergymen leaped to Ben Sadok's defense. Jean-Pierre Mayer, a member of the Young Catholic Worker movement, who had worked beside him as a plumber in Strasbourg, testified for the accused. He cried: "Ben Sadok, you are my friend, you are my brother, as we are all sons of the same God. Ali Chekkal would understand your gesture. No more bayonets between us." Witness Mayer departed, weeping...
...earlier supporters became disillusioned. But even before Sukarno left the country, General Nasution, who participated in an abortive anti-Sukarno coup in 1952, was moving like a man firmly in the saddle. Backed by Premier Djuanda and most other Indonesian moderates of all parties, he ordered all worker seizures of Dutch properties to stop immediately. All army leaves were canceled, troops ordered into battle readiness and put on a stand-by basis...
...part, there had been nothing but good will and hard work since last summer. Fervently talking up his dream back in the U.S., Graham collected $250,000 from fascinated' investors ranging all the way from the Rockefellers' International Basic Economy Corp. ($25,000) to an oil worker who offered $5,000 in $100 monthly installments and formed Private Enterprises...
...such companies are out to help is not the employee who goes on an occasional binge but the worker whose job suffers from his drinking. "You must be very careful," says Dr. Harold Vonachen, head of Caterpillar Tractor Co.'s medical department, "that you're not dealing with just the social phenomenon of martinis before dinner or drinking one too many on Saturday night." To discover the man who is having real trouble handling his liquor -and the problem strikes executive and machinist alike-companies brief supervisory personnel on the signs to watch for, such as frequent absenteeism...
...derision. Almost instantly the U.S.'s tiny, grounded satellite got rechristened stallnik, flopnik, dudnik, puffnik, phutnik, oopsnik, goofnik, kaputnik and-closer to the Soviet original-sputternik. At the U.N., Soviet diplomats laughingly suggested that the U.S. ought to try for Soviet technical assistance to backward nations. An office worker in Washington burst into tears; a calypso singer on the BBC in London strummed a ditty about Oh, from America comes the significant thought/Their own little Sputnik won't go off. Said a university professor in Pittsburgh: "It's our worst humiliation since Custer's last stand...