Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until the talks became hopelessly deadlocked in Pittsburgh that the President decided to intervene. When the negotiators were put to work in Room 2751, he urged them not to "plant your feet in concrete" but to "put the national interest first." Setting the stage for a Taft-Hartley injunction in case all else failed, he read economic reports warning of the "tragic consequences" of a strike, quoted one document from a Defense Department agency claiming that it "could not afford the loss of a single day's production...
Still other reports tell of an unsuccessful ambush of a Castro motor caravan in Pinar del Rio province, and a bomb planted at a Cuban power plant where Castro was scheduled to talk...
Four in the Fudge. Heavy rain fell all night before the race, and by post time the clay track was the consistency of soft fudge. Unlike flat-racing thoroughbreds, who plant their hoofs, then pick them straight up-and often revel in the softer footing of an "off" track-trotters slide their hoofs slightly forward each time they take a stride; they tend to slip and get mired in the mud. That is exactly what happened to Noble Victory: twice in the three-heat race, he broke stride; in the third heat, the best he could do was third...
Carefully assembled to exclude Ramblers, a cavalcade of cars rolled past the plant of American Motors Corp. in Kenosha, Wis., horns blaring to attract attention. From a truck at the head of the cavalcade, a group of men lifted a flower-topped coffin bedecked with signs that accused American Motors of attempting to "bury our union," bore it around the plant like pallbearers. The demonstration was organized and manned by members of United Auto Workers Local 72, who last week, to protest the firing of a union steward, struck American Motors at a crucial moment in its history and thus...
...work weeks that have angered the union leaders were not intentionally scheduled by American Motors; they were caused by periodic shortages of auto bodies. The shortages developed when large numbers of bodies, rejected by inspectors for faulty workmanship, were sent back for repair instead of on to the assembly plant. The union steward whose firing precipitated the strike was discharged for refusing to let his men in the Kenosha body plant work overtime-work that would have provided more bodies, thus making unnecessary the short work weeks in the assembly plant...