Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next play, Brown drew a bead on John MacLeod, who was sandwiched between three defenders in the endzone, and threw a perfect scoring strike with a little over four minutes left in the first quarter...
...charter is to build up a military bloc on Israel's northeastern border that would be strong enough to worry the Israelis into making concessions, but not threatening enough to provoke an Israeli pre-emptive strike. Iraq is the Arab world's second largest oil producer (after Saudi Arabia) and has a large, Soviet-supplied army. It would like to station some of its forces in Syrian territory opposite the Israeli border, but after their years of quarreling with the Iraqis, the Syrians are reluctant to accept such an arrangement. According to Iraqi sources, the new agreement will merely permit...
...Yorkers may or may not be the most discerning newspaper readers in the country, but they are certainly the most critical. During the long newspaper strike, which now seems to be winding to an end, they've had to relax their critical standards and make do with a passel of skimpy strike-born newspapers. "New Yorkers are now getting. Clay Felker, the editor of Esquire, remarked the otter day, "the level of newspapers the rest of the country gets. This remark is unfair to a number of newspapers in other American cities...
...city's retail stores have done unexpectedly well. Of more concern to New York's cultural role is the strike's damage to first novels, unheralded plays, art openings and musical debuts, all dependent on favorable attention...
...newspapers. Local television stations lengthen their news broadcasts without improving them. Critics from the papers, reading their reviews on the air, soon found themselves simplifying their judgments-more fervently denouncing or plugging a book-having discovered television's inpatience with verbal nuances. Reporters and columnists working for the strike-born papers seem less impressive than usual. Can it be that the role of editors in making news judgments is more crucial than writers like to admit? Or perhaps, on interim papers, reporters are like football players in a postseason Hula Bowl...