Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thundered in this speech to his constituents in the Transvaal town of Heidelberg, "who believe they can bring South Africa to its knees [long pause] with a mandatory arms boycott [pause]. I tell them [long pause]they have another guess coming." The audience went wild. A National Party worker, standing 6 ft. 6 in. in his bush boots, pounded the shoulder of the spectator next to him. "Man," he shouted, "this is the man! This is the Churchill of the platteland...
...composed almost exclusively of members of the worried, defiant, 2.6 million-strong "white tribe" of Africa, whose Dutch forefathers first landed in Cape Town in 1652. More than any other man since their legendary 19th century Boer chieftain, "Oom Paul" Kruger, Vorster is their accepted leader. Said a party worker at last week's rally: "The people of this constituency have followed Mr. Vorster's career and been loyal to him in his worst and his best times. This time it has never been better...
...member, all-student USG is only one of several policy-making and advisory groups Princeton students can work through. Not all these groups deal with such mundane matters as fixing driers, either: the Priorities Committee, a student-faculty-worker group, has significant impact on Princeton's budgetary process, its members say. Composed of four undergraduates, two graduate students, six faculty members, a professional staff member and three top administrators, the group has almost complete access to all budgetary data...
PUMA was organized more than two years ago, partially to dramatize prostitutes' problems to the public and media. Steve Lewis, a Boston social worker, read about a similar group in San Francisco called COYOTE and he acted as a catalyst in bringing together several former as well as practicing prostitutes in a new Boston-based organization. Lewis's association with PUMA ended last January and Lesley Weeks, a former prostitute, now serves as its president and main spokesman...
...feminist groups [in Boston] that have addressed themselves to the needs of poor women," Kip Tiernan, a social worker at Boston's St. Phillips Church, says. Tiernan says PUMA members often display an unusual sensitivity to the concerns of female alcoholics, prison inmates and battered women, in social projects which go beyond PUMA members' own immediate interests...