Word: skis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wake of mass strikes, the arrest of several thousand rioting workers proved to be yet another government blunder. The subsequent trials of about 100 rioters served to unite workers, intellectuals, students and the still powerful Roman Catholic Church against the regime. In a recent sermon, Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, 75, the revered Primate of Poland, lamented from the pulpit that "it is painful when workers must struggle for their rights from a workers' government...
Some of Poland's best-known intellectuals have become active on behalf of the jailed demonstrators, who are serving up to ten years in prison. A defense committee, including such dissidents as Novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski and Economist Edward Lipiński, has collected $20,000 for the families of the jailed workers. Former Education Minister Wladyslaw Bienkowski addressed an open letter to the government, protesting police brutality against the workers. "It proves," he declared, "that some people have ceased to pursue the goals of serving the people and have become a gangrene transmitting the rot to other parts...
...seems determined to show the pilots that "they underestimated us." It will be a walkout without much public sympathy; even in the eyes of some less well-paid Continental employees, the pilots already seem well off. Many pilots own outside businesses (ski resorts, cattle ranches, law practices) and, says Six, there is a feeling that "they are trying to get more free time to devote to those businesses." Concedes Pilot Dick Engle:"Because of the level of salaries, it is pretty hard to persuade people to sympathize with our point of view...
...wouldn't have believed it," Roberts said yesterday, adding, "I played in a ski parka, gloves...
...time the author appeared to be running away from his worktable and the fearful knowledge that, increasingly, he was not the wordman he used to be. When all else failed, it seemed, he staged another accident. Broken bones, his and hers, are painfully scattered through the book, from ski spills in Italy to the famous plane crash in Africa in 1954. In the intervals of self-awareness Hemingway described himself as a "desperate...