Word: secessionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
On April 21, 1970, he served notice of secession and declared his 18,500-acre farm a sovereign state, which he called the Province of Hutt River (pop. 20). Clad in white tie and tails and sporting an old British naval sword, he dubbed himself Prince Leonard and elevated his...
Ryan described the auto industry's strategy of "exploiting labor" by forcing large numbers of employees to work overtime, glutting the market, and then laying off workers as "seasonal cyclical secession." She said that 40 per cent of all auto works in the U.S. were laid off this year.
> Ethiopia has urgently requested about $30 million in light arms and ammunition from the U.S. in order to carry on its fight against Eritrean secession ists, who are being supplied by Algeria and Syria with Russian machine guns and antiaircraft missiles.
He begins to talk about District 65, telling the story of its secession from the AFL-CIO after quarrels over the Indochina war and minority representation in the union. "We advocated changes," he says, "and in 1968 we decided that no longer in good conscience could we continue in a...
This gradually became clearer over the course of the medium's history. The first "art" photographs were conscious imitations of paintings. In 1880, Henry Peach Robinson and O.G. Rejlander tried to use multiple imagery--painstakingly assembled in the darkroom--to create "historical" pictures, portraying in one vast tableau all the...