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Tuesday, February 04, 2003 |
Today In History
February 4, 1869
Labor leader and Industrial Workers of the World co-founder William D. "Big Bill" Haywood was born. A hard-rock miner at the age of nine, Haywood became secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners in 1900 and in 1905 co-founded the IWW. In 1907 he was charged in the bombing murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg but was acquitted. His defense attorney was Clarence Darrow. He helped lead textile strikes in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 and Paterson, New Jersey, in 1913, but his radicalism increasingly estranged him from many in the labor movement, including his old union, which dismissed him in 1918. That same year he was convicted of violating alien and sedition acts in effect during World War I and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He jumped bail and fled to the Soviet Union, where he died in 1928. He is buried beneath the Kremlin walls.
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rapport: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. rapport [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Tuesday February 4, 2003
rapport ra-POR; ruh-, noun:
Relation; especially relation characterized by sympathetic understanding, emotional affinity, or mutual trust.
He established a tremendous rapport with younger patients and routinely skipped classes and missed tests to take children to the circus or for rides in his convertible, often stopping for ice cream at Frank Monaco's drugstore on the South Side.
--James T. Fisher, Dr. America
Scott and Shackleton could not have been temperamentally more dissimilar and had virtually no rapport.
--Caroline Alexander, The Endurance
The two men shared similar backgrounds and enjoyed a good rapport: both were born to wealth and influence, Cambridge educated, connoisseurs of culture, and world-class in knowledge, ability, and outlook.
--George Perkovich, India's Nuclear Bomb
Rapport comes from French, from Old French raporter, "to bring back," from re-, "back, again" (from Latin) + aporter, "to bring" (from Latin apportare, from ad-, "to" + portare, "to carry"). |
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