Word: discontentedness
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Still, the Maugards are not where they would like to be. "Everything is rising but my husband's salary," says Yvette. "Like most workers, I'm very, very discontented." Both voted for Mitterrand, who they thought would do more for the workers. "We didn't like Giscard...
Rolling Heads. Last week wildcat strikes spread from Portuguese firms to several American and other foreign companies that built factories in Portugal to employ cheap labor. Workers struck the Timex and Bayer corporations, demanding more than 50% raises. All four Firestone tire plants were shut down by discontented employees, while...
Now that historians are moving closer to quantification as a basis for studying past movements, Degler's subject matter puts him at a disadvantage. While he may march through studies of Southern dissent predating the Nullification crisis of the 1830s and continuing until around 1900, he cannot take a census...
IT'S IMPORTANT for understanding the Strike to understand what might be called 1969's moderate student mood. SDS never won the allegiance of anything like a majority of Harvard students. What it did succeed in doing was raising issues and articulating concerns that moderate students felt more tentatively. Even...
Almost everyone Jane met was willing to tell her how to live. "Hey, did anyone see three index cards with the Groovy Orgasm speech notes on them?" somebody yelled at a sex clinic. She visited a fisherperson on the West Coast, a Tupperware lady in New England, various militants and...