Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bakers were unimpressed by any such general considerations, and last week, all over France, they banged down their shutters and went on strike. The government retaliated vigorously. In some provincial towns the strike caved in under government threats to draft bakers into the army. In Paris gendarmes "requisitioned" nearly one-third of the city's 4,200 bakeries, ordering the owners to fire up their ovens or face a year in jail and a $3,500 fine...
Cool Bakers, Hot Ovens. With their backs to their cash registers, most of the embattled bakers at first stood fast under the combined assaults of the government, their customers and the press. A day after the beginning of the Paris strike, the president of the Bakers Syndicate called a meeting of his colleagues and proposed that they all turn out a small amount of bread for distribution by the police. From the audience a baker snouted back, "Let 'em eat biscotte." By week's end, however, the bakers cooled down and their ovens began heating up again. Calling...
...current negotiations for a new dining hall contract result in a strike, a sizable portion of the University is going to be elated. For the more liberal elements in the Houses it could go a long way toward making the year worthwhile. Not only will they be able to see the University publicly embarrassed by labor troubles, but they may be able to get off board, a windfall of no small importance...
...hour bargaining session was characterized by Heaman as "very friendly." He added that, "so far there has been no official mention in our discussions of a possible strike...
...definitely don't want to strike," Joseph Stefani, business representative of Local 186 said last night, "but we will if only as a last resort...