Word: wildcatted
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...opposition head on, detailed OEO's considerable accomplishments, and expressed his own impatience with not being able to do more faster. He likened the poor to labor-union members, who must sometimes settle for less than their full demands. "The American society can't afford wildcat strikes in the industrial area; even less can it afford wildcat strikes on the entire social order-and that's what Watts...
...beat the international ban on Rhodesian tobacco, Smith threw a tight security net around the normally raucous auction sheds, cut prices and offered wildcat buyers guarantees of absolute secrecy. Gone were the chanting auctioneers, the throngs of spectators. Instead, armed guards turned away all unauthorized visitors, and the floors last week were empty except for a scattering of watchful officials and carefully anonymous buyers wandering through the rows of heaped leaf. There was no open bargaining; transactions were quietly conducted by government agents, and anyone caught leaking information about sales was subject to two years in prison...
Four days earlier, in northern Chile, government carabineros had fired into a crowd of rioting "wildcat" strikers at El Salvador's copper mine, killing eight and wounding 35. The protesting general strike was one of a series called by the Frente de Acclon Popular (FRAP), Chile's Socialist-Communist opposition to Christian Democrat President Frei...
...Miners, it had been a long haul. Their impressive 27-1 season record had virtually demanded at least the No. 3 rank in the nation. Unconvinced outsiders claimed that the team had not really faced tough competition. Kentucky was certainly that. Coached by Old Master Adolph Rupp, the Wildcats were an impeccable, diligently honed unit. But the Miners, as one opposing coach observed, "don't let you play the way you want to." And they didn't let Kentucky. From the opening jump-off between Miner David Lattin and Wildcat Thad Jaracz, they had Kentucky off balance...
Adolph Rupp was literally in tears with five minutes left in the game. This was the team Rupp said he loved best in his 36 years of coaching at Kentucky. The Wildcat fans affectionately called them "Rupp's Runts...