Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than the prickly heat was worrying Pandit Nehru. He was vexed about Goa, because the "inevitable historical process" of taking over this Portuguese colonial remnant had gone awry; the Goans had not risen up, as expected, to demand liberation, and Nehru had been made to look foolish. Nehru was also annoyed by his Minister of Labor who resigned from the Cabinet because Nehru had arbitrarily overruled the Labor Tribunal. But above all, Nehru showed telltale signs of jealousy. For one thing, Attlee & Co. Ltd. (of Great Britain) had poached on his position as No. 1 interpreter to the world...
...since I am neither Prime Minister nor Foreign Minister but only the Secretary of the Communist Party." Khrushchev's theme: European peace could be guaranteed by nations with common interests-Russia, Poland, France and Britain. In the U.S., he went on, there are some who want war, and demand that Russia make concessions even before negotiations start. Russia would never give in as the price for negotiation. He then toasted "peaceful coexistence...
...Four States, W.Va., mothers of about 60 white pupils at the Annabelle grade school kept their children home in protest against the admission of 13 Negroes, said they would demand the dismissal of Principal Lloyd Seccuro. ¶ In Hutchins, Texas, four Negro pupils unsuccessfully tried to register at the "white" Linfield elementary school, learned the state would maintain a ban on desegregation for at least another year...
...case in point is the 13-week strike at Detroit's Square D electrical-equipment plant, where the Communist-led independent United Electrical Workers walked out over a company demand for a no-strike clause in the contract. After weeks of negotiation-and no progress-the company decided to throw its gates open and try to break the strike of its 1,200 employees. By last week 450 workers-more than half of them U.E. members-had braved threats and flying fists to go to work, giving rise to scenes reminiscent of the strike-filled...
...Park City, Utah last week, people were hustling about with a vigor not seen in two years. Old residents were returning because United Park City Mines Co. was reopening its big lead and zinc deposits. The mines were shut down in 1952 for lack of demand, and half the population of 4,000 had left town...