Word: workman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationwide ail way strike. For nearly four hours, the President of the U.S. had pleaded with management and labor for a 20-day delay in the showdown on their conflicting demands. In the White House Fish Room, newsmen were wearily awaiting the outcome. Now, into that room sauntered a workman who casually set up a TV prompter. On it, in letters two inches high, was printed the news that the strike had been put off for at least 15 days. Moments later President Johnson, appearing haggard, entered the Fish Room and read these words: "Both management and the brotherhoods have...
...About the only variety in her life, and this too is minimal, are the scenes of her love-making. Usually it is in Cesare's bedroom, but once he takes her on the shore of a lake, and another boy makes her on the damp floor of an abandoned workman's shed...
...rescue helicopter lifted from a barge 2½ miles out in the Pacific, off San Diego, at the site of a sewer-construction project. Strapped to a pontoon was an injured workman, his leg broken by a whiplashing cable. Suddenly the chopper tilted and crashed into the water. Aboard the barge, preparing to inspect the pipe 217 ft. down on the ocean floor, Jon Lindbergh, 31, deep-sea-diver son of Air Hero Charles Lindbergh, stripped off his gear, dived in and swam 100 yds. to the crash. Working under water, Lindbergh swiftly cut the injured man free from...
...fellow who went and got the toothpaste was just that. He was a guy who was making a living by being a workman. Not that he was in essence a workman--his station in life. And therefore his thoughtfulness was not his "job" but his humanity...
...with two other young people who were both totally awed by the woman. But I was not. To me, she was merely a likeable woman blessed with fortune and a good deal of talent. She was nothing more or less than a human being as much as the workman or Billy DeBord...