Word: ferring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week the disorders in the Asturias coal fields had pretty well run themselves out, but not before the regime was forced to offer 50% wage increases that were welcome to the miners, although less than they had asked. Elsewhere, the strike was still spreading. It was clear that the fer ment had made a deep impression on Franco and his top aides; when even Spain's leading Roman Catholic magazine came out in favor of the strikers, the gov ernment hinted that it might legalize non-political strikes, a major break in the 24-year prohibition on labor protests...
...Fall Down (M-G-M). Berry-berry Willart (Warren Beatty) takes a long, slow pull of bourbon. "Funny things happen t'me alla time," he says reflectively. "Dunno why. Dunno what I'm gonna do next. I just-live fer kicks!" And he lays back his ears and laughs like a jackass that can smell the old pea patch...
...England, have blossomed even in its sacrosanct drinking clubs. Bookies, permitted to operate from betting offices for the first time since 1853, report that business is up from ten to 25%. But for well-heeled Englishmen, the law's most welcome provision is its restoration of chemin de fer* to the British scene...
...under-developed towns of Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo, long lines of unemployed and untrained people stand around roulette wheels and chemin de fer tables hoping for financial aid and technical assistance...
...audience with an expression like the can't-win cat in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Best line belongs to Sellers. "Four years we've been gaoin' together," his girl (Liz Frazer) in forms him indignantly, "an' what've oi got to shaow fer it? Nothin'!" Replies Sellers with a smallish smirk: "You've been lucky...