Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pickets from the NAACP, CORE, the American Veterans Committee, the Unitarian-Universalists, and the State AFLCIO filed around the hotel carrying placards protesting the rally. Violence erupted on the picket line when a Polish refugee tried to burn a Communist flag on the sidewalk, causing a scuffle. The refugee, Joseph Mlot Mroz, president of the Anti-Communist Federation of Polish Freedom Fighters, was arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace...
Hargis, head of the rightist religio-political Christian Crusade, started the day's speeches with a prayer for the "misguided youth who picket this meeting today...
...newspaper strike negotiations become further complicated when New York Street Cleaners Local #60 decides to picket any settlement. The Janitors Local, the Toilet Tissue Workers International and the Christian Science Monitor declare solidarity with #60. Three Harvard government courses cancel lectures because of the lack of the New York Times...
...walking on a picket line and an FBI agent comes up and rubs this white chemical on you and you're wired from then on. They can pick up everything you say until you have the suit cleaned.* They go to the school and investigate my kid. He's a good kid, if I do say so. They go around to his friends and say, 'How many suits of clothes has Jim Hoffa got? How much money does he carry around in his pocket?' They gave orders to every airline office in the country-when Hoffa...
...single issue groups" -usually "academic" students whose concern to ban this or that stems largely from high intellectual awareness. Such bright youngsters, the fruit of rising admission standards, are all for such unexceptionable American values as peace, equality and freedom. They just want to carry them out. So they picket or parade for disarmament or civil rights, and the really curious thing is their political style-"restrained, reflective, cautious, intellectual and even pedantic...