foreman

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With his breath condensing in clouds in temperatures double figures below zero, a foreman summed the attitude that is common here, when I asked him why Russia was attacking them.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Instead, only the foreman signed off on it — the legal equivalent of pulling a fast one on the judicial process.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2025

My father, Rudy, was the foreman at Associated Transport, a huge trucking company with a branch in Richmond that went bankrupt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

In Texas, a white foreman stopped Alvarado and his group from picking in cotton fields just before a plane covered the crop with DDT.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

The Defender counseled, “Quit calling the foreman ‘boss.’

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield