Word: putting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assistant, made the rounds early on the strike's first morning. Mrs. Huerta saw a light in one house where four of the workers lived. She reminded them of their pledge, but they had changed their minds. Mrs. Huerta moved her truck so that it blocked their driveway and put the key in her purse. The incident illustrated the charge that Chavez and his aides sometimes coerce those who would rather work than strike. After only four days of the strike, the grower agreed to give the workers a 120% wage increase...
...authentic new look. The litmus was the fate of the general's Foreign Minister, Michel Debre, an unbending and abrasive loyalist and to both sides a symbol of extreme Gaullism. Pompidou persuaded him to accept the prestigious but politically insensitive Ministry of Defense. Then the President put together a Cabinet to his own taste, composed of twelve Gaullists and seven members of the independent right and center parties. It faithfully reflects Pompidou's desire for a more moderate foreign policy, fiscal restraint, and possibly a harder line on student dissent. The five...
...Defense Community scheme and thus forever afterward barred from any De Gaulle Cabinet. His appointment now is designed to still criticism of the government's heavy-handed manipulation of the courts, though the assignment is liable to bring him into conflict with a Gaullist minister who is staying put: Raymond Marcellin, Minister of the Interior and the government's main law-and-order...
...find the culprit who could be held responsible for the lost fish (estimated at up to 40 million), the emergency shutdown of the waterworks and any reparations that the Dutch might claim. In all, the legal penalty could total $1,000,000, but no one could put a price on the possible long-range damage. Even though the swift-flowing Rhine is largely self-cleansing, it may take years before the river restocks itself with fish. There was, however, one possible benefit from last week's case of poisoning. It might well shock the four major Rhine countries-West...
...Grit. In the Charles Portis novel, a 14-year-old girl, Mattie Ross, narrated her adventures in the 1880s while tracking down her father's murderer with the aid of Cogburn, an aging federal marshal. The book was parodic frontier realism, a Frederic Remington painting with the colors put in by numbers: courageous red, sky blue, lily white and Zane gray...