Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when 1,300 rounds slammed into the U.S. base. And, as in 1954, the North Vietnamese by night tunneled ever closer to the Marine perimeter, drawing the net of fortified attack positions ever tighter. In terms of firepower and supplies, the Communists were better prepared to strike at Khe Sanh than they ever had been at Dienbienphu. During the early days of the six-week siege, they even had the weather-low clouds, fog and mist-in their favor...
...development of Spain under the Franco government from 1939 to the present. Although he described the political and economic situation in Spain throughout this period as dismal, he cited certain "hopeful" signs, in the student movements begun in 1956, and in the working class movement whose first major strike was held...
...causation and execution, the murder of Martin Luther King was both a symbol and a symptom of the nation's racial malaise. The proximate cause of his death was, ironically, a minor labor dispute in a Southern backwater: the two-month-old strike of 1,300 predominantly Negro garbage collectors in the decaying Mississippi river town of Memphis. The plight of the sanitation workers, caused by the refusal of Memphis' intransigent white Mayor Henry Loeb to meet their modest wage and compensation demands, first attracted and finally eradicated Dr. King, the conqueror of Montgomery, Birmingham and Selma...
...Kubrick's superb film has a problem, it may simply be that great philosophical-metaphysical films about human progress and man's relationship to the cosmos have one strike against them when they attempt to be literally just that. Rossellini's radiant religious films or Bresson's meditative ascetiscism ultimately say far more, I think, than Kubrick's far-more-ambitious attempt at synthesizing genre and meaning...
Albert Shanker, president of the New York City teacher's union and leader of this Fall's 14-day teacher's strike, will speak on "Teachers, Strikes, and the Ghetto" at 8:30 tonight in Rm. 18, 2 Divinity Avenue...