Word: picket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joseph Bolker, Christina Onassis's first husband: "What Christina always wanted was a home with a white picket fence, a garden, a baby . . . and a nursemaid, of course...
Cafeteria workers in Fall River yesterday refused to cross the teachers' picket lines, and school officials told students to bring lunches to school as the officials tried to keep schools open at least through this week...
...many New Yorkers, the dispute that led to this year's walkout remained only dimly understood. Though all ten of the city's newspaper unions are by now either officially on strike or honoring the picket lines, the focus of the fracas is a once mighty, now waning band of newsprint-hatted yeomen, the pressmen. Not to be confused with printers, who set the type?and whose ranks have been thinned by automation in recent years ?pressmen are the strong-limbed fellows who start, stop, replate, ink, wipe and otherwise keep the presses rolling. Automation has not much altered...
...trade a few years back, there were so many pressmen and so few jobs that it would have taken two decades to make journeyman. "There was very little future for them with all the newspaper closings, so I gave them a few words of wisdom," he said on the picket line last week. "They...
...mood has been bizarre all week long as the Presley fans arrive in a city that seems to be coming apart. Trash is lying in the streets because sanitation workers stay off for a day, honoring police picket lines. Most of the firemen are also out on strike, and both they and the police are ignoring court orders to return to work. The schools are scheduled to open later in the week, but the teachers say they will not cross any picket lines. The mayor has called out the National Guard, costing the city $70,000 a day. Armed with...