Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight is not quite over. The bill will probably be passed by the Senate, despite the bitter opposition of Senate President (and former Premier) Amintore Fanfani. Even then, the anti-divorce forces have one last stratagem. They will press for a referendum next year to give the Italian people a chance to repeal the law. Said L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily: "Divorce may have a parliamentary majority, but it is not approved by a majority of Italians." That remains to be seen. At any rate, if the bill is enacted and remains in effect even for only...
Acoustic Anarchy. In 1965, Baron was jolted awake every morning by a barrage of air compressors at a construction site near his Manhattan apartment. He decided to fight. "I found that there was no ordinance limiting the racket between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.," he recalls. "Something had to be done about this acoustic anarchy." He left his job as manager of a Broadway play and by 1966 had established a volunteer organization called Citizens for a Quieter City...
...growing bitterness in U.S. labor relations. Union men, whose pay raises in the past few years have barely kept pace with price boosts, increasingly feel that corporations and the Government are taking advantage of them by urging the acceptance of moderate wage hikes as part of the fight against inflation...
...fairly hard to take seriously. That's not a new quality for the workings of the Selective Service System. It has always been difficult to realize than that system took its male youth to fight and die for interests that were incomprehensible or vile to many of them. The distance of this mighty bureaucracy and its indifference to what its recruits thought or wanted never quite ?bed with what we were taught to think as "American...
...drag me out of the car. A man who announced that I had insulted his wife, the post-debutante, by my remark about the naked chicken, threw a full glass of Scotch in my face and said, "What do we have to do to make you get out and fight...