His old rubber boots wuz all wore offen him, his clothes hangin' in rags and tatters where he had rushed through the woods and swamps, his feet and hands all froze.

Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...

I knew not the cause of your mazedness, but 'twas all I could do to keep those stones going.

It [the Taft–Hartley Act] labels certain union practices as unfair and permits the NLRB [National Labor Relations Board] to take action to stop them. These unfair practices include wildcat strikes (walking off the job without taking a strike vote), sympathy strikes (striking to demonstrate support of strikers in another company), jurisdictional strikes (disputes between unions over their right to represent workers), secondary boycotts (refusal of workers to handle goods made by some other company whose workers are striking), and featherbedding (requiring an employer to use unnecessary labor).