Word: picketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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council, jogs in a NO FREEDOM, NO FOOTBALL T shirt, the familiar slogan of players on the picket line eight years ago. Less a strike than a student demonstration, that action amounted to marching around the quadrangle a while and then going back to class. The owners are still grinning. As for drugs, the owners favor urinalysis of the sort routine to boxers and Olympians. The players' association calls such tests dehumanizing. Only Detroit Lions Tackle Doug English has been heard to say out loud: "When you think about it, almost all of football is dehumanizing." If the players...
Demonstrations and press conferences took place in more than 75 cities, from San Diego, to Philadelphia, to Billings, Mont. In Washington, D.C. 75 people staged a one-hour picket line outside the Justice Department. At least 25 more protests are planned for this weekend, a spokesman for the Washington-based Committee Against Registration and the Draft estimated...
...reasons for expanding them into a book. "First," he said in an interview, "the letters provided a way to outline my position clearly, consistently and systematically." Second, Bok "was distressed at the level of discourse about moral issues--it was being diminished to the level of slogans, chants and picket signs. I write the letters not so much to persuade as to establish a level of discourse." Finally--and "this is a subtler point, and while I may not have succeeded in this respect, I have no regrets"--he wanted to combat what he considered "an excessive amount of cynicism...
...aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible had nosed into position around the Falklands. The big ships, guarded by antisubmarine frigates and nuclear-powered hunter submarines, were as close as 90 miles to shore, while destroyers interposed themselves between the islands and the mainland to set up a radar "picket" about 100 miles west of the Falklands. Fighting 40-to-50-m.p.h. winds that whipped the frigid seas into 40-ft. waves-momentarily leaving the propellers of the lighter frigates spinning in mid-air-the British task force had begun an effort to choke off supplies to the occupiers, while Royal Marine...
Dive. Dive. The klaxon sounds. Periscopes go down. The Atlanta, commissioned a month ago, is on a test run, honing ship and crew for duty, before they go on station as a stealthy picket in the outer rim of U.S. defense. Vice Admiral Steven White, Commander Submarine Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet, inspects his newest ward- The U.S.S. Atlanta on a sea trial in the Atlantic one of 81 submarines under