Word: joh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police. Since March, similar scenes have been re-enacted almost daily in Queensland, Australia's northeastern state, where 231 people have been arrested in protests against harsh new labor legislation sponsored by the state's right-wing Premier Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, 74, who is called "Jackboots Joh" by detractors. Among other things, the laws require unions to give up to seven days' notice of their intention to strike...
...walkout by power workers, who feared losing their jobs to outside contractors. Clergymen and civil rights and labor activists, who see the legislation as a threat to Australian unionism, have joined in the protests. Recently the unions blockaded the state's transportation links for 24 hours. Sir Joh afterward attacked the unions as a "bloodthirsty lot trying to grind down the community." Said he: "They do not realize their days of threatening and bullying people in this state are over...
McAndres did a good joh himself, breaking open a 2-1 game in the seven-run fifth with his first collegiate grand slam homer...
Although Wolff was not the first to notice the attributions to "J.S. Bach" and "Joh. Sebast. Bach" in the collection of 17th-and 18th-century manuscripts, he was the first to analyze the pieces, which had been previously disregarded as shams...