Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With no political experience and a lack of funds, Joseph F. Tichanuk describes his campaign as "the run of the common man" for the city council. Born and raised in Cambridge, Tichanuk has been a motor equipment operator in the city water department for the past 25 years...
...creation of a vivid image of a decade characterized by uncertainty and despair, a decade brightened only by America trust in Roosevelt as a paternal cult figure and by the refreshingly lighthearted fantasies of Hollywood. Disorder and confusion are starkly represented in scenes depicting violent strikes at a Ford Motor Company plant, a Communist rally in New York, a Ku Klux Klan gathering and MacArthur's dispersal of the Bonus Army's Washington gathering in the waning days of the Hoover Administration...
...Hoyo de Manzanares, the convoy disappeared up a twisting, rutted dirt road. Barred from following, we turned off the car motor and listened. Off below, down the road among the boulders and scrub brush, there was a sudden volley of rifle fire. It was 9:25 a.m. At 9:40 a.m. there came a second volley and at 10, a third. Armed police shuffled up and down the dirt road, calmly puffing cigarettes. By 11, the gray vans carrying the remains appeared, en route back to the village. A black car also loomed into view; it contained the local priest...
...Boston Police stopped the demonstrators' bus caravan after only a few blocks and arrested two persons for motor vehicle violations and one for disorderly conduct. When the demonstrators neared South Boston High School the police again stopped them and arrested the remaining...
...home goes back more than 50 years, and has prevailed in times of prosperity as well as depression. Investment money pried loose has too often been channeled into inefficient industries. A recent government example: Labor's plan to pump some $2.3 million per day into the British Leyland Motor Corp., which is currently losing $264 million a year...