Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad siding, General Vladimir Petrov, chief of Russian rail transportation in Berlin, sweated in his greatcoat as he directed other Russian officers who hooked engines to stalled freight cars. In its second week, the railroad workers' strike against their Communist bosses had effectively tied up Berlin rail transport...
...some areas Communist agitators armed with guns and clubs rode out of cities in trucks to patrol country roads, force the braccianti into the strike. At Molinella, northeast of Bologna, they ambushed farmhands going to the fields, tangled savagely with carabinieri who came to the rescue. In the melee, a Red woman worker was shot dead. Twenty-seven anti-Red workers went to the hospital. One moaned: "Will it never end? Can one never work in peace...
...Fear but Firmness. Christian Democrat de Gasperi understood the Red game. He also understood that democracy's first job had been to curb communism as a brass-knuckled force beyond the law. Despite Red violence in the farmhands' strike, he had established his government's authority...
Along these same Roman sidewalks, in 1948's spring, Red mobs had marched with clenched fists and Marxist hymns. Last week the proprietor of a jewelry shop on the Piazza Colonna could say: "When the Reds called their last general strike [in February], they came to me and said,, 'You better close down.' I told them...
...secret of keeping horses high in flesh, Missouri-style, is so fundamental that many horsemen pay little heed to it. The secret: hay. When the feed man delivers a bale that doesn't strike Ben's fancy, back it goes. "I can smell hay, or feel it in the dark, and tell whether horses will like it," he says...