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Word: picketer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner replace it with yellow cardboard than paste floral wallpaper over the Sistine Chapel. Good notions run rampant through Pat Pilz's scenery, always to materialize several sizes too large, several colors too bright, and several pounds too collapsible. They have built the Great Wall of China where a picket fence was called...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: How to Succeed | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

...Heyns got tougher. He summoned off-campus cops to grab 72 of them in a predawn raid; although they submitted meekly, he immediately suspended all of them. The protesters then issued their call for a strike by students and faculty but had trouble even getting enough supporters to man picket lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Striking Out at Berkeley | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...fear that an attempt will be made to close it down. The administrators are trying to face all possibilities realistically--but it's possible that by being so concerned with developing antidotes, we're actually helping to create some of the symptoms. Particularly worrisome is the possibility of a picket line which students, and perhaps even Freidel, would not cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc. Sci. 5: 'A Place for the Black Man at Harvard?' | 11/14/1968 | See Source »

...find employment. "We lived in the Near North Side," she recalled. "At the time of the Second World War, it was the heart of the profascist, racist, anti-labor movement in Chicago. My parents were working people. We were anti-fascist and pro-civil rights. We walked in picket lines. The Communist Party was on our side; when I was 16, I joined...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Charlene Mitchell | 11/5/1968 | See Source »

...most serious. For the third time since September, the majority of the city's 58,000 teachers defied state law to go out on strike, and more than a million students were denied the vital right of education. Teachers marched outside their schools, and children watched as picketers traded insults and obscenities with nonstrikers and parents. With picket lines drawn in front of the schools where many people vote, there was fear that even the election might be disrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN LINDSAY'S TEN PLAGUES | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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