Word: strikebound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return of New York's long-strikebound newspapers brought from columnists a renewed freshet of negative pronouncements upon the New Frontier. "Frustration and stalemate," wrote the Times's James Reston, "now seem to be the order of the day for the Administration.'' Echoed the Herald Tribune's Robert J. Donovan: "The President is beset by stalemate and sluggishness...
...endless. But neither city has anything on Portland, Ore. There, an almost forgotten dispute has dragged on since November 1959, and is not one pica closer to settlement than it was when it began. But unlike New York or Cleveland, Portland has not been without its newspapers for one strikebound day. It is, in fact, the only U.S. city that ever went into a strike with two dailies-the Oregonian and the Oregon Journal-and wound up with three. The newcomer is the tabloid Reporter, a strike-born paper that was first published by union members in February...
Where the strikebound New York Times still appeared* the paper admitted that Kennedy made "exhilarating" listening. But the Times was not exhilarated: "There is some danger that the euphoria thus generated may tend to eclipse the harsher side of reality." Kennedy's rosy picture of things, concluded the Times, was "too good to be quite true." The Providence Journal challenged his logic: "How a President facing such a big deficit can stand before Congress advocating more spending and lower taxes and call his program 'fiscally responsible' is more than we can understand...
...Cleveland, where strikebound papers have been shut down one week longer than they have in New York, the situation was no better...
Thermometers plunged toward zero, and so did labor relations at South Bend's Studebaker-Packard plant, strikebound for three weeks. As pickets huddled to keep warm one day last week, a black Mercedes-Benz picked a path toward the main gate. At the wheel was Studebaker's Hollywood-handsome president, Sherwood Harry Egbert, 41. Pickets closed around his sedan, refused to let Egbert through unless he showed a union pass...