Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last in 1953 El Glaoui had his way and the French packed Ben Youssef into exile with two wives and a few favorite concubines, the aroused women of Morocco were the first to unite in demand for his return. Many were killed in street fighting. Others did their strike duty at home, refusing to have children during the Sultan's absence...
Cold as Tombs. The bitterest strike of recent times had lasted 13 weeks, the longest major strike since 1950. Some 50,000 of Westinghouse's 116,000 employees were out, and almost half of the company's 98 plants (e.g., those producing atomic reactors, electronic tubes, air conditioners) sat as cold and motionless as tombs. At most. 4,500 of the strikers had crossed the picket lines and gone back to work...
...down, discuss, argue, and then resolve differences in the truly American spirit of give and take." Now, Carey accuses Price and his company of "moral irresponsibility, economic depravity, scab-herding, contract-breaking"; in return. Price accuses Carey and his union of "gangsterism, deliberate planned violence." While strike lines have swollen, the two negotiating teams have met only three times in the last two weeks, only to break up quickly, once with Westinghouse spokesmen storming out and accusing the union conferees of "foul and abusive language...
...Five. The strike began on Oct. 17, when a deadlock at the bargaining table erupted into the streets and onto the picket lines. The union insisted on a one-year contract with a 15? hourly wage hike. To meet competition and provide for long-range planning, Westinghouse demanded a five-year contract, with yearly raises amounting to 23.5? an hour by 1961-terms similar to but not identical with those agreed upon by the union and General Electric. But there was a deeper issue. Westinghouse is trying to put through a companywide, time-study program aimed at increasing production efficiency...
...sword set against the Turk. He can spread two fingers in a wine glass and shatter it; his words are blunt, plain and few. He goes on broody, Homeric, eight-day binges, but "wine could never-bring him down." It is clear, as his horse's hoofs strike sparks from the streets, that he is riding for a more classic fall-the fall caused by hubris, the overweening pride of the Greek tragic hero...