Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teachers in New York State are bound by the Condon-Wadlin Act, which outlaws strikes by public employees on pain of dismissal and sets a three-year ban on pay raises for rehired strikers. But New York, which already has a teacher shortage, could hardly fire 22,000 teachers. Instead, the board of education stopped the strike with a restraining order. It was up against a militancy that it never quite expected. "People expect teachers to act like angels. But when the board of education acts like a factory owner, we have to respond accordingly," said one picket...
...grave heart condition, and he was warned to stay away from his ranch, to avoid riding horses and tilting with bulls. But with the spring, Belmonte could not stay away, could not forgo riding Maravilla, his favorite horse. An hour with the bulls last week left him with a pain so intense he feared he would die from it. Finally he made his decision. He mounted Maravilla for a last fond ride across his plain. He spoke with special kindness to each of his peones, rode to his whitewashed ranch bouse and disappeared into his study. There he took...
...news stands, and will take full-page ads only ("more dignified"). Although the maga zine's opening subscription rate was a stiff $10 a year (it will rise to $15 in May), test mail solicitations pulled some 125,000 charter subscribers. Those who signed up should feel little pain as they pay the high price of news-plus-history: according to a recent survey, their average income exceeds $26,000 a year...
...idea is that if children can change their parents often enough, they will never work up a good Freudian hatred for them. Pain has been abolished through some kind of autohypnosis; local surgeons operate without anesthesia by drugs...
...scenes that echo in his music. With porkpie hat and elbows locked to his hips in the pose of the cool twist, he sings a celebration of the street-corner king. The song ends with a spin, a pause, and Brown turns back to his listeners-a mask of pain that conjures up the setting for his next lament. In a minute he is downtown again, fingers snapping...