Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly 100 people are expected to picket the Massachusetts State House Wednesday afternoon in protest against the construction in Framingham of the first state government bomb shelter in the United States. The picket is being organized by the Greater Boston Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy...
...Diamond Pattern. U.S. experts, the story went, were still unsure whether the Soviet astronauts had perished on the launching pad or while the rocket was soaring into space-and meanwhile a new mystery was in the making. Four Russian missile tracking ships were spotted on picket duty in the Pacific, deployed in a vast diamond pattern that has been observed only once before-when Khrushchev was on his way to the U.N. But in Moscow, the scientific secretary of the Academy of Sciences, Yevgeny Fedorov, solemnly warned last week: "Much time is still needed to ensure complete safety...
When the tuggers struck, many members of the big railroad brotherhoods refused to cross the picket lines-even though the conservative railroadmen have not always seen eye to eye with the fiery tuggers in the past. But to break ranks and submit to management this time, many of the rail unionists figured, would set a precedent affecting all the old featherbedding practices that presently cost the railroads a claimed $500 million a year. Example: by contract, diesel engines must still carry firemen...
Many college students also made up the crowd, their bright dress providing a striking contrast to the drab refugees. Most of the students said they felt that the Nazis had a right to picket the theatre, but upheld their own picketing as "the only way we can protest against what they stand...
Roger Weigand won easily at number three, defeating Ron Picket in consecutive games, 15-11, 15-5, and 15-7. Playing the fourth-ranked Indian, Bob Schwartzman ran into trouble only at 14-13 of the second game, after winning the first by 15-8. But he capped a long rally with a backhand drop shot, to win it 15-13. He won the third...