Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Headed for Anarchy. Already high, tensions exploded when the City Council forbade assemblies of more than two persons anywhere in town. United Front lawyers went before a federal district court seeking an injunction to strike down the ordinance, and scores of blacks gathered at Montroy's church for a march on police headquarters. When club-wielding state and local police drove them back into the all-Negro Pyramid Courts housing project, weapons appeared in black and white hands, and Cairo seemed headed for anarchy...
Workers on the nationalized railways struck for seven days, halting 60% of France's trains and stranding hundreds of families home-bound from vacation. The trainmen finally settled for about a two-hour reduction in their 46-hour work week. In Paris, a wildcat strike of subway workers brought the underground Metro's 17 lines to a virtual standstill. When bus drivers joined in, as so often before, Paris became a city of pedestrians and monumental traffic jams. Post-office workers served notice that they intend to walk off their jobs next week...
...city that only three years ago saw a rancorous strike senselessly deprive thousands of printers and journalists of jobs, and New York of a great newspaper, talk of the Met's going out of business was chilling indeed. Considerable damage has already been done. Two promising revivals-Puccini's Fanciulla del West and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin-have already been lost even if the Met opens, as it still conceivably could, in a month. Herbert von Karajan's new Siegfried, which must be done in November or not at all, seems likely to be scratched...
Over two-thirds of the resident student body voted, 683 for 'dorm autonomy' and 23 for 'other'. However, immediate action on the referendum was impossible, because of timing problems (the administration was still dealing with the aftermath of the April strike) and the possible interference of the issue with merger plans...
...beginning of the Spring term last year, a group of students distributed "The Trouble With Grades" and urged pass-fail grading. Eventually 80 per cent of the class signed a petition supporting that position, and there were rumblings of a student strike if the faculty...