Word: workmanly
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...pain and suffering claims above $5,000. Obviously, it will encourage claimants to increase their demands to an amount which will bring them into court-and there they will still be faced with the present outmoded concepts and procedures-and interminable delay. Compensation plans similar to workman's compensation acts are the right prescription. Whether on state or national level, provision for full participation by private industry is indispensable...
...about a dandified dreamer who cannot figure out whether he killed his wife in a nightmare or in cold blood. Death Kit is much the same. The hero is a junior executive named Diddy, and the question is, Did he, while traveling on a train, butcher an innocent railroad workman? Diddy is sure he did it; yet a blind girl near by who hears all and who proves to be on target about everything else, says he never left his seat. But most of the time Diddy's deed seems the least of the author's concerns...
...Camelot set she is adored. Warm and natural with everyone, she never claims her star prerogatives except for the sake of somebody else. Last week, when a workman got drunk, she summoned her limousine to take him safely home. At the noon break, on occasion, she bunches her floor-length royal robe between her thighs, hops on a studio bicycle, goes pedaling off to the fridge for the bottle of rosé that she stashed there in the morning?and then shares it with her hairdresser or the company's dog trainer...
...Random Failure. At the same instant, a couple of technicians standing on a level with the craft windows saw a blinding flash inside the ship. Heavy smoke began to seep from the capsule, filling the white room. A workman sprinted across the catwalk leading to the craft, tried desperately to loosen the hatch cover. He was driven back by the intense heat and smoke, but half a dozen other technicians, some wearing face masks and asbestos gloves, raced to help. One or two would try to wrench open the hatch, then fall back from the scorching heat while others struggled...
...young Man of the Year wear his hair long enough to drag the ground. Let the girls wear rough workman's clothing and boots. Let them express themselves with the skull-cracking noises they call music. We of the Beaten Generation can endure all that, but in the end we expect them to make a better world...