Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place in French society, bent their energies to completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum's weak Popular Front government in 1936. By the weekend, the fast-spreading wave of strikes had squeezed transportation to a crawl, crippled mail service and both Paris airports, and spread into dozens of manufacturing industries. Barring the remote possibility that...
Hardin, Shaw, and Baker all ran sub-4:08 minute legs on the way to a 16:28.2 clocking but could not quite overtake the stronger Wildcat quartet of Ian Hamilton, Tom Donnelly, Charley Messenger, and Frank Murphy...
Villanova's depth-laden team streaked to victories in two relay events. In the mile relay, which clinched the team title for Villanova, the Wildcat foursome set a meet record of 3:14.4. Villanova also captured the distance medley relay thanks to a brilliant mile anchor leg by Frank Murphy...
Crimson Coach Floyd Wilson went with Johnson and Grate at the guards in the second half, seeking a little more speed to help beat the bothersome Wildcat press. Johnson and Grate--who had spent most of the first half on the bench--responded well, scoring eight points piece, rebounding, and--most importantly--looking for the open man on offense, to give Harvard its best team effort of the year...
Needing Every Penny. Labor, too, with its fierce class antagonisms still smoldering and its "I'm all right Jack" attitudes, has stoutly resisted any modernization of British industry that infringed on shop-hardened rituals. The unions' push for wages, backed by a proclivity for wildcat strikes unmatched in any country, sent hourly earnings soaring some 40% from 1960 to 1966. While Britain's productivity grew by only 18%, West Germany's was rising 29% and Italy's 40%. The result was that British goods were priced out of the market, while Britons used their money...