Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting against police and Russian soldiers -ten in the mining center of Tatabanya alone. The Budapest Workers' Council, chief spokesman for the rebels, posted word in factories that "if this keeps up, the workers will turn against the government for good, and the end will be a general strike, bloodshed and a new national tragedy." Next day the government released 69 of 200 arrested men, but Kadar told a delegation he would destroy all council leaders who opposed him as "counter-revolutionaries...
This week, as the Budapest Central Council ordered a two-day general strike to begin Monday night, the government dissolved all workers' councils, declared a state of martial law, and cut off all communication with the outside. The struggle for power went on in hapless Hungary...
...suspend" their demand for Nagy's return. But when Kadar proved unwilling to make any real concessions, they began to fight back. Angered by his refusal to allow them to publish a paper, the Budapest Workers' Council exhorted all Hungarians to boycott the government press. Ominously strike leaders warned Kadar that his obduracy might force them to plunge the country into "total anarchy...
...different. The sporadic flourish of small arms fire and an occasional artillery shot echoed and re-echoed from the hills of Buda. Reinforcements of Soviet tanks were moving into the city. They came because Budapest streets were littered on Saturday afternoon with leaflets calling for a 'total strike' in the name of the Budapest Workers' Council...
...inspiration for another poem, Provide, Provide was a strike of the University's scrubbing staff. The work begins, "The witch that came (the withered hag) to wash the steps with pail...