Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cornell and Harvard have sponsored the archeological explorations for the last three years. About 150 native workmen are now excavating the six key sites in the huge city...
...While workmen carry out their $1,400,000 repair job, Macmillan will have to find other quarters. He expects to live and work at Admiralty House in Whitehall, where a special Cabinet room has been readied...
...read all the books he could cart away from the Workmen's Institute, overcame a stammer by reciting Shakespeare to anyone who would listen, and at 21 was sent by his fellow miners to London's Central Labor College. The school's militant motto: "Educate, Agitate, Organize...
...Angry Young Man, full of both compassion and wit. The war with the Kaiser was none of his concern: his battle was with the thoughtless world of privilege that allowed his father to choke to death of a miner's lung disease and never offered a tuppence in workmen's compensation. In 1929 he burst upon Parliament "like some great disturbance of nature" as the new member from Ebbw Vale...
...Fence Menders. With that, a curious sense of anticlimax swept Japan. Returning wearily to his home in suburban Shibuya, Kishi found it free of the yelling, snake-dancing mobs that have besieged it every day since May 20. Taking advantage of the calm, workmen were busy repairing Kishi's smashed gates and fences...