Word: workmen
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...file's first entry, Frank wrote Straus in April 30, 1941: "I am forced to look out for emigration, and as far as I can see U.S.A. is the only country we could go to." His brothers-in-laws, recent U.S. immigrants, employed as "ordinary workmen around Boston," could pay for only one passage. Frank had already in 1938 filed an application in Rotterdam to emigrate to the U.S., "but all the papers have been destroyed there," he wrote. Yet "everyone who has an effective affidavit from a member of his family and who can pay his passage may leave...
...wood ball - and except for two years during World War II, has done so every year since, though the ornament has lost a lot of weight, svelting down to a 150-lb. aluminum ball in 1955. In the old days the thing dropped through the efforts of six burly workmen and a guy with a stopwatch. Now it's all done by computer...
...charts - but cheered anyway. Even the blistering heat wave baking Britain's streets seemed timed to make Allen's summery blend of laid-back ska, pop and hip-hop seem all the more appropriate. Her single Smile is already as inescapable as the heat, wafting from open windows and workmen's radios alike. [an error occurred while processing this directive] The Bush Hall performance is also 21-year-old Allen's first full-length gig, two streets away from where she grew up in west London. Her album, Alright, Still, could possibly debut at No. 1 this week...
...monument to Murphy's Law, the great white Batmobile that will be piloted by Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen is already two years behind its timetable and $3.6 billion over budget. Only a year ago workmen had diagnosed the ship's ailment as "smallpox," a reference to the holes left in its outer shell when heat-dissipating tiles became unglued. At one time or another, the entire project became unglued. Perhaps it was prophetic that the task force proposing the space shuttle back in 1969 was headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew. In any case, Columbia offers...
This historical pronouncement was accompanied by some typical Reagan anecdotage, including a rambling story about a federal program for the maintenance of cattle ponds. Some years ago, when one of the ponds on Reagan's ranch was being repaired by his own workmen, he recounted, "these Department of Agriculture guys showed up and said, 'Send these guys home. The Government would pay for it.' " Reagan, who said that he ended up paying for the repairs himself, told the story with great verve, though some at the meeting wondered what relevance it had to the current fiscal crisis...