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factory-working

adjective as in blue-collar

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In his original 1974 review of the film, Times critic Charles Champlin said “although the roguish Albert Finney of ‘Tom Jones’ or the factory-working Finney of ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ would be almost anybody’s last pick for the haughty and debonair Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, he is formidable, merveilleux and a bloody delight.”

Her lavish lifestyle is replaced by a dull, factory-working existence and she makes a potentially life-threatening decision to return to her old occupation.

The son of a printing press-working father and a factory-working mother, Hemsley served in the Air Force and worked for eight years as a clerk for the Postal Service.

I’d watched a few films, too, both Hollywood and documentary, that showed how women are especially vulnerable in the city, and how Mexican men can’t handle the growing independence of the factory-working women in their lives.

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Meanwhile, in the comics pages, Gil is an 8-year-old boy being raised by his divorced factory-working mom, and Dustin is 23 and living at home, unable to find a job after graduating from college.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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