Word: blackboarding
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STAND FAST! KEEP CALM! VICTORY is IN SIGHT! implored the words scribbled on a blackboard at a Belfast street corner last week. The message was an appeal to Protestants in Ulster's latest, and perhaps most serious crisis. A province-wide general strike brought business to a complete standstill, forced most of the province's 180,000 industrial workers off the job and shut down virtually all shops. Ulster was on the brink of economic paralysis...
...succumb to the lures of the auctioneers (like Kevin White, Sonya Hamlin and other local notables) who encourage you to "Stay at Home and Bid by Phone." The best show on TV is the proper society lady struggling to get all the bids chalked up on the blackboard as more and more and still more keep coming...
...years in prison. Some old SDSers now say they think he must have been an undercover policeman, because, they say, whenever a meeting was going well he would disrupt it. It's hard to imagine Collins drawing followers or contributions or for that matter "Fuck Authority" on Inkeles's blackboard in any spring but 1969's. For awhile, he'd challenged Disraeli's dictum that great revolutions aren't lightly begun, but he passed into Strike folklore and then out of sight...
McGuire's floating-triangle defense, designed to collapse on Burleson and shut down Thompson and guard Monte Towe man-on-man, soon joined the Warrior control-offense schemes as just so much chalk on the dressing-room blackboard...
Each student would stand up and give his name. He would then proceed to a blackboard where the candidates were listed and make a cross next to the name of his choice...