Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the strikers will resort to violence. Yet Chavez, the militant labor leader, is a devout Roman Catholic who believes perfervidly in pacific means to his ends. Last month, "to recall farm workers to the nonviolent roots of their movement," Chavez began a 25-day fast, living only on water and Eucharistic wafers in a scruffy Delano gasoline station owned by the N.F.W.A...
Fathers & Sons. If the government felt disposed to redress any grievances, there was no sign of it in Warsaw. Police turned a water-gun truck and tear-gas launchers on the mob, waded into its midst with rubber truncheons and hustled some 300 off to police headquarters. At least six students accused of being ringleaders got jail sentences of four to six months. To prevent a spread of violence to factories, the government transported busloads of workers to antiprotest rallies...
...last, Harvard's crew, indoors since last Thanksgiving, has taken to the water again...
...rains were less kind to downtown Boston. Storrow Drive was buried under six feet of water when the Charles River in the Back Bay area overflowed...
Heavyweight coach Harry Parker described yesterday's conditions on the river as "essentially free of ice" for the first time. His oarsmen have been making sporadic forays onto the ice-choked Charles since last Wednesday, but now on-the-water training can begin in earnest...