Word: striker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Running Amok. Belatedly, the Quebec provincial government called out 600 infantrymen and 300 Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It also rammed through an emergency law ordering police and firemen back to duty by midnight under threat of heavy penalties, including fines of up to $100 a day per striker. Soon after midnight, the cops began reappearing, made more than 60 arrests...
Many, many thanks from one who grew up with Sergeant Striker, Big Jim McLain, John T. Chance...
...incident, photographed by Stan Forman of the Record American, occurred when the striker tried to stop the freshman from removing the crosses planted in the Yard to symbolize the Vietnam dead...
Caires spent more than two days looking for the freshman who downed the striker. "I was delighted when I saw that picture in the paper," Caires said. "I thought, here is the actual redemption for this sad affair. These crosses were profaning the Harvard Yard...
...satire on the press, entitled "The Fourth Estate," centered on the dialogue between a student striker and a news reporter. The skit grew out of the San Francisco State strike, but with selective alteration of proper nouns, it seemed to fit Harvard tolerably well...