Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure that the article hit hard at the older generation, but they have a harder blow to anticipate-the class...
Less conspicuous than its recommendations to the CEP were a series of influential HPC department audits. These detailed written studies of what ails Harvard's various fields of concentration have become consistently potent politically. An audit of the History Department in the fall dealt a death blow to general examinations which were to be required of Juniors. The most remarkable HPC audit was one of the Department of Architectural Sciences. Composed by students who were in close consultation with Faculty in the department, it wrote the design for a new department of Visual and Environmental Studies which the Faculty created...
...Cambridge, a "failure of the system" sort of radicalizing event happened when a referendum on the war was soundly defeated. To quite a few hard-working students, including many that Keniston had interviewed months before, it was a stunning blow. The "channels" that liberals had talked about were turning out to be ineffective channels...
...wage settlements in order to end the strike that had idled half of France's 16 million-man industrial work force. Then, at plant after plant, the workers rejected the settlements and called for creation of a popular-front government of Socialists and Communists. It was a shattering blow to De Gaulle. He had been operating on the assumption that he could buy off the workers, whose demands until then had been purely economic, and then cope with the rebellious students who had started the crisis in the first place. With the non from the workers, the faltering Gaullist...
...rankles many Spaniards most is the government's retreat from its promise to relax its tight rein over significant portions of the country's life. After a strike shut down a Bilbao steel plant for seven months, the 1965 right-to-strike law was revoked, a bitter blow to labor. The much heralded press law of 1966 had its freedom riders seriously curtailed by the inclusion of press offenses in the penal code, which provides the regime with a handy means of punishing dissenting opinion...