Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depths of the Depression, "D.D.," as intimates call him, won a 35-hour week for the I.L.G.W.U., pioneered such fringe benefits as medical and retirement plans. Always deeply involved in politics, he formed New York's Liberal Party and ran it as autocratically as his union-as one aide put it, "like Puck playing patriarch...
...restive, the students hit the streets in swarms, from aging undergraduates of 26 and 27 to ten-and twelve-year-old girls, storming through pro-Communist ministries and homes, singing savage, and frequently bawdy, songs. "There is a little Peking dog called Subandrio, and he barks, gug, gug, gug," ran one of the tamer refrains. The demonstrators finally threatened to attack Sukarno's gleaming white Merdeka Palace in Djakarta, where Subandrio and some of the other Ministers had been trans ferred. There they would cut off the Ministers' heads and impale them on the spiked walls outside...
...space, the first vise of a power tool in space and a host of other scientific experiments. In Houston the next move was obvious: Arm strong's decision to use his vital re-entry rockets prematurely meant that the spacecraft must be returned to earth before it ran out of the necessary fuel for controlling reentry...
Hill gave Texas Western its first big lead early in the first half with two fantastic steals which ran the score from 10-9 for the Miners to 14-9. After that, the 5-10 Hill astounded the crowd with his clutch plays and driving layups...
...usual, the intransigent I.T.U. was at odds with the rest of the newspaper unions. Though most of the other union members honored the picket line, only the mailers joined the printers in striking. Five of the other unions had accepted the publishers' early offer when contracts ran out in 1964: a $4.10 weekly increase in health and welfare benefits in 1965; a $4.20 increase in pension payments in 1966; and no wage boost. The printers, who have a fatter pension fund than the other unions, balked. They demanded an immediate pay raise. As one printer on the picket line...