Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classes." In all ages, says Heiden, "this has been the way of counterrevolution: an upper layer that has lost its hold in society seeks the people and finds the rabble. The officers were out to find a demagogue, of whom it could be said that he was a worker. . . . They found their leader in the lowest mass of their subordinates. The spirit of history, in its fantastic mockery, could not have drawn an apter figure...
...mass-tools of a chief engineer. Those who belonged to the "intellectual" age approved; those who did not were misled. "No trade-union leader called for determined resistance [because] the education of the working masses in the ideals of the economic age was now making itself felt. The worker, taught for decades that the only thing he had to fight for was his material interests, was bound to ask himself whether these interests would be better served by resistance to the new order or by participation in it." He chose Hitler...
Rats mislike loud noises, as many a laboratory worker knows. And a shrill noise may throw them into something like an epileptic fit. This elementary experiment has long served as an introduction to the study of fear. Last week, however, some very contradictory rat findings were reported in Science by a Johns Hopkins psychologist, William J. Griffiths...
...Labor Party was equally complacent: it read out Manchester's Laborite Alderman and former Mayor Joe Toole for violating the Party truce, entering Skipton's race as an Independent. The local Conservatives put up a Party worker, 61-year-old Harry Riddiough. Socialistic Sir Richard Acland's up-&-coming Common Wealth Party entered young (31) Lieut. Hugh Lawson of the Royal Engineers...
...morning class; Tommy Kennedy, third; and Butch Bratton, fourth . . . Strictly off the record is the dope that our boy Klein is on the inside track to take over as company commander, come the first when there won't be any More . . . ditto Hershie for assistant -- he's a wicked-worker when it comes to a watch bill . . . They're telling around Littauer that 240 of the 240-odd (!) members of the company asked for amphib duty, if the truth were known . . . Had a helluva time pruning down...