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Word: picketings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Yardlings will also play at Hanover today, against a fairly good Dartmouth freshman team. In the first singles match, Bob Bowditch will meet the Indians' Ron Picket, who last year won the New York State High School Championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team To Meet Big Green On Away Courts | 5/8/1958 | See Source »

...strode into the united labor movement's sleek, modern headquarters in Washington last week, burly A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany blushed for all to see. Plodding back and forth on the sidewalk was a pudgy picket carrying a sandwich board that proclaimed: 21 YEARS AN A.F.L.-C.I.O. ORGANIZER THEN FIRED BY A 3^ STAMP. Admitted an A.F.L.-C.I.O. official: "It's damned embarrassing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Embarrassing Picket | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...embarrassing picket was James Sweeny, 59, a onetime coal miner and longtime professional organizer who was booted out of his $6,500-a-year job a few weeks ago and into retirement with a $96-a-month pension. At the same time, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. fired, retired or switched to different jobs nearly 100 organizers (out of 218). The A.F.L.-C.I.O. explained the shake-out as a necessary economy measure, but to the jolted organizers and ex-organizers it seemed just a hard-fisted example of old-fashioned capitalistic union-busting. Reason: early in 1957, the organizers organized a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Embarrassing Picket | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...Picket. In Ardmore, Okla., State Trooper Paul Clark was waved down by a man at the side of the road who got himself arrested when he stuck his head in the window, warned: "Hey, the highway cops are working a radar trap over the hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...directing their destruction by antiaircraft fire, guided missiles or interceptor planes, now in the process of being armed with nuclear-warhead rockets. Behind the Pine-tree posts, watching for breakthroughs or for flank attacks from the sea, are a host of additional AC&W units, including lines of offshore picket ships, Air Force RC-121 Super Constellations, Navy ZPG-2W blimps and, in the Atlantic off Cape Cod, a Texas Tower (two others are under construction, off Nantucket and New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: NORAD: DEFENSE OF A CONTINENT | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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