Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unsigned letter and enclosed clippings from Paraguay state that the nation's Federation of University Students declared a general student strike in protest of the arrest and mistreatment of over 250 students by police since April...
...Little Too Late. A wildcat strike of 6,000 transport, industrial and catering workers, paralyzing Pamplona, took the authorities by surprise. Said Civil Governor Carlos Arias: "Order will be re established in a firm and inflexible manner." Though Arias threatened that workers would lose their social benefits, and called out the Guardia Civil, Pamplona's workers paraded the city's sunny streets in their best clothes. The strike fever spread to the Basque city of Bilbao (scene of a 1953 stoppage of shipbuilders), Tolosa, San Sebastian and other northern towns. Thus far only workers in small dispersed industries...
Republicans Remember. Last week an estimated 50,000 workers were on strike in the north of Spain. Clandestine strike propaganda cited the profits made by Spanish enterprises and at least one illegal poster exhorted: "Spanish Republicans, do not forget this day!" Thousands of additional guards were called out to reinforce the already formidable Franco police forces in northern Spain. In a country where strikes are forbidden, the absence of arbitration machinery makes it difficult for the dictatorship to settle the strikes in any way but to crush them...
...seeing most clearly." Sandemar, a world-roaming aristocrat among tramps, carries a slate on which he writes and then wipes out his thoughts. Why? "I'll tell you-because we have found nothing. We merely find that it is possible to say almost anything. But afterward we strike out by degrees everything that can be said...
...eighth inning Army coach Joe Palone talked the plate umpire into reversing himself on a call. the Ken Rossano pitch, originally called a strike, went into the books as a ball, and the Cadets recorded their most significant achievement all Saturday afternoon. Otherwise, Rossano had them handcuffed, permitting four hits in winning...