Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, a Tory Party worker drove his sound truck through the sleepy streets of London's suburban Thornton Heath, roused the neighborhood by trumpeting through his loudspeaker: "Wakie, Wakie-up you get -and up the Tories...
...Jubilant Conservative politicians flatly predicted a Conservative victory at the national polls next year. Nevertheless, both sides realized that less than two-fifths of Britain's electorate had voted, that local contests do not necessarily forecast the country's attitude in a national election. Said a railway worker in Streatham: "Yer can't judge by local elections. They vote against you if they don't like yer face...
...with her. Isabel Bishop's paintings hang in more than a dozen of the country's top museums; when a Manhattan gallery last week staged her first show of oils in ten years, it had to borrow almost half of the show from previous buyers. A painstaking worker, Bishop finishes only four or five paintings a year...
Edelman said that he and his wife "became quite interested in finding out what the Communist Party was talking about' 'while they were living in Indianapolis in 1943. "All told, we attended about two party meetings and had the Daily Worker sent to us," he said...
...Then the Worker's editors discovered that Boysen was of Puerto Rican descent. The issue was plain as a picket's placard: the case had sinister overtones of Jim Crowism and white supremacy. In a furious editorial the Worker slapped down its sportwriters : "We regret that [they] should have tended in one case to minimize and in the other case to overlook this social aspect of the Durocher case, their comments ranging from a 'let's-hear-from-both-sides' to a 'it's-too-difficult-to-judge' attitude...