Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first the commissions' tactics were cautious, involving in-plant petitioning agitation and brief work stoppages. But as the movement grew, it acquired the support of students, churchmen, and political groups ranging from liberal Monarchists to the Communist Party . Non- violence remains its credo, but the threat of more audacious and aggressive action is always there. Some plant executives leaving the factory parking lot at day's end now prudently check to be sure that their brake-fluid lines have not been cut or their tires slashed. On May Day, the Workers' Commissions turned out such a huge...
Factory Priests. The movement has acted as a catalyst for other segments of Spanish society. In support of it and of their own complaints against the regime, Spanish students rioted at the University of Madrid earlier this spring and forced it to close for more than a month. Three weeks ago, trouble erupted there again when hundreds of students chanting "We want liberty of expression" battled the police with stones, set furniture ablaze and smashed windows...
When he takes office on Oct. 1, Arias' first task will be to cement relations with Panama's 4,000-man National Guard. Though it promised to support the winner, the guard-along with Arias' political enemies-has booted him from power twice in the past, in 1942 and 1951. The first time around, Arias was evicted for writing a tough, totalitarian-style constitution that threatened to turn Panama into a fascist state. Eighteen months into his second presidency, he was toppled again for organizing his own secret police and once again trying to install his totalitarian...
...National Guard of installing Arias as President. A few hours later, the government-dominated Electoral Tribunal, which oversees the Election Board and is theoretically superior to it, declared the board's vote count invalid. To make its action stick, however, the tribunal would have to get the support of the National Guard; and Panama's military seemed in no mood to let the politicians fight the election all over again...
...Maddox understood full well what the court's decision meant for the South. He ordered all flags on state property flown at half-mast, and in an official proclamation announced that it had been "another black and tragic Monday, when the United States Supreme Court again ruled in support of the demands of the Communist Party." The decision, he predicted with desperate hyperbole, would result in "more assaults, rapes, burnings, deaths and violence in our public schools...