Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students in Memorial Church vote overwhelmingly for a three-day strike...
...Maldives strike that best illustrated India's proclivity to take on the role of regional policeman. If the affair provoked unease among India's neighbors -- Pakistan accused New Delhi of having stage-managed the coup attempt -- it garnered approval in more distant quarters. Ronald Reagan, then in the White House, congratulated New Delhi for a "valuable contribution to regional stability...
...Roosevelt and Yonkers raceways. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $10,000. In 1984 Perry pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit sports bribery as part of the notorious Boston College point-shaving scheme. At the trial, recalls Edward McDonald, head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn, N.Y. Perry was referred to as Richie ("the Fixer") Perry...
...hagiographies and heroic tales, faith is tested by adversity. Wheelwright's challenge is vintage Irving, an event that is simultaneously horrifying and absurdly funny. It occurs during a Little League game in the summer of 1953 when Meany, in the lineup because his diminutive strike zone draws walks, swings away. He connects for a mighty foul ball that shoots toward the stands and fatally strikes Wheelwright's mother on the head. The game is suspended along with, it is hoped, the reader's disbelief...
...lost in critical rummage would be to miss the point. Irving's litany of error and folly may strike some as too righteous; but it is effective. His glaring capital letters aside, Meany reminds us that, after the nostrums of the Great Communicator, news should be more than what we did not know yesterday and are likely to forget tomorrow...