Word: disrupted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buzzing in its ear came from the strike of 16,000 C.I.O. equipment workers in A.T. & T.'s subsidiary, Western Electric Co. Though they were on strike in 43 states, the workers knew they couldn't completely disrupt telephone service. There were just too few of them. So to snarl the maximum of telephone lines with the minimum of means, the strikers began what they called "hit & run" picketing. They would show up at one exchange and when telephone workers refused to cross picket lines, supervisory workers and executives would have to be pressed into service...
...definite steps have been taken to disrupt the present service, but Reynolds said the University is now considering substitute programs for possible use beginning next September...
There would be nothing unusual about this registration were it not for the way a small group of fanatically nationalistic Puerto Ricans tried to disrupt it, and the spectacular manner in which they themselves were disrupted...
Randall squelched the Massachusetts Avenue parade on the grounds that it would disrupt traffic. Cambridge Police Lieutenant William L. Nixon said last night that the University could hold rally parades on Massachusetts Avenue if it secured a permit. Cambridge Latin School held just such a parade on October...
With a blunt finger he probed behind the front. "The Soviet Union has repeatedly violated its pledges of international cooperation," he said. "It has destroyed the independence of its neighbors. It has sought to disrupt those countries it could not dominate. It has built up tremendous armed forces far beyond the needs of its own defense . . . Communist imperialism preaches peace but practices aggression...