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Word: picket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...follow them. At least they do not have a choice as long as they imagine themselves parts of a machine, and not its masters. As long as that view holds the institution must come before the people--the evicted tenants, the shunned students, the workers huddled on a picket line--because it is bigger and will live forever...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

Although the union instructed workers to report to work yesterday, workers at one Gulf Oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas struck while others honored a picket line in front of an ARCO plant, also in Port Arthur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oil Union Officials Reject Offers Which Meet Carter Guidelines | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

Next week DSOC and SASC will cosponsor a picket or recruitment representatives from Chase Manhattan Bank. In addition, the groups are working together on a petition drive...

Author: By Lisa E. Davis, | Title: Films on South Africa | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

Peter Sachs '79-3, a member of SASC, said at the picket that the Corporation should try to force banks to state publicly whether they will make, renew or extend loans to South Africa, and stop relying on "private assurances...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Same Ol' Tune | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

Members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) began canvassing all Harvard undergraduates last night to encourage them to picket Massachusetts Hall this afternoon and to sign petitions urging the Harvard and Radcliffe Corporations to divest of their holdings in corporations and banks operating in South Africa...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: SASC--Circulates Divestiture Petitions | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

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