Word: truck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...About 300 people marched behind a sound truck through Kenmore Square breaking windows in the National Cash Register building and two banks...
...Strike!!!" That angry chant, booming out at the end of Clifford Odets' play Waiting for Lefty, typified the spirit of radical protest in the depressed 1930s. Now, in the affluent '70s, it is echoing from meetings of union men who would fit neatly into Odets' script (truck drivers, tugboat deckhands) and many others who would not (mailmen, air traffic controllers). Their mood of frustration is so intense that 1970 may go down in U.S. economic history as the Year of the Strike...
...less sophisticated slugging match on the ground. Israeli and Syrian patrols battled once more last week on the Golan Heights. While Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat was off in Peking seeking aid, his guerrillas were busy fighting-but not against Israel. They shot up a Lebanese army truck, wounding three soldiers, and kidnaped 15 customs men. It was reportedly the first time the army had been directly involved in the crisis...
...York City's mail strike briefly deprived the N.B.A.'s Eastern-champion Knickerbockers of two key basketball players. Mike Riordan, who plays guard, was called up by his National Guard unit to drive a mail truck. Cazzie Russell, who plays forward, played guard-in front of the Kingsbridge armory. Guardsman Cazzie's change of uniform fooled neither the photographers nor the kids, who gave the big sentinel little opportunity to relax at his post...
...nothing we regret leaving behind but you and our master. But we see you, who have been unstinting mother to us all and dispenser of many joys, we see you at last joyful with Straight Sam. So we leave you happy, knowing that you and Sam and Alyosha will truck on down when...