Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line, then to Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland. With his Arctic pictures in hand just before ice, fogs and darkness of the northern winter set in, he went on to installations in southern Canada, the U.S. and (by planes, blimp, helicopters and ships) to radar picket lines...
...ground radar elements, circling the far approaches of the continent. ¶ A second warning system (the Mid-Canada line) of automatic and semiautomatic radar stations running across the wilderness of Central Canada. ¶ An intricate "interior zone" warning and control complex of offshore air and sea picket lines, continent-wide networks of radar stations, identification and interception centers, ground and air combat commands, from Labrador and British Columbia to Florida and Southern California...
...stink bombs hurled into trucks or emery powder sneaked into motor oil. In recent years, armed with "paper local" labor-union charters obtained with the friendly conspiracy of Teamster Big Wheel Jimmy Hoffa, Dio collected wads of cash from employers in return for promising freedom from strikes, picket lines and other union nuisances...
...gave service too. In the dreary Depression days of strikes and lockouts, Hoffa's springy figure and his vibrant personality (expressed with a wealth of the four-letter words) became a familiar sight. His commodity was spirit. He found men to form picket lines, sometimes scraped up money to pay for their bread. He toured meetings of locals like an itinerant troubleshooter ("I know how to coordinate all the locals, how to use them to give full strength wherever we need it"), wore out his share of shoe leather on countless picket lines ("I was picked...
...picket line that he met Josephine Poszywak. She was a striking laundry worker, and he was an interested Teamster; they were married in 1936, have a son, James Phillip, 16, and a daughter, Barbara Ann, 19. Jimmy doesn't expect Josephine to do picket-line duty now. When he took the stand before the McClellan committee, he said: "I asked my wife not to watch it [on TV]. It would just upset her. What's the use of her watching things she doesn't understand...