Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calling the strike of the teachers a "vicious power grab," acting president of the college S. I. Hayakawa said, "I don't know how I am going to stop them from closing the school, but I am going to try...I am not going to accept it closed by anybody...
...FRANCISCO--A group of about 1000 minority students, striking teachers, and supporters failed Monday to disrupt the reopening of San Francisco State College. Several hours later however the San Francisco Labor Council sanctioned the teacher strike...
...action of the council's executive board will probably mean more trouble for the campus, which has suffered from rioting and vandalism since Nov. 6, when the Black Students' Union called a strike...
...groups. When 1,000 militant students met last week in Marseille to form a common front against De Gaulle, they squabbled so badly that they could agree only on one motion-to adjourn. For their part, the workers lack both the will and the funds to go out on strike any time soon...
...Homestead steel strike in 1892 (eight years after Allan's death) that finally turned the word Pinkerton into a hated synonym for union-breaking muscle; for during that strike, Winchester-toting agents were imported as "watchmen." As late as the 1930s, Pinkertons were finding congenial work playing labor spies on behalf of management. For today's Pinkerton heirs, however, the intoxicating old self-righteousness is gone. Robert II, the fourth generation of detective Pinkertons, who would have preferred to remain a Wall Street broker, is now chairman of the board. Seventy branch offices are tamely staffed with...