Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scab! Scab!" they threw rocks and bricks at newly hired workers trying to enter the plant. Republican Governor Charles Thone was finally forced to summon 160 National Guardsmen to aid the 100 besieged state police. It was the first time that the Guard had been mobilized since an Omaha streetcar strike...
...Warsaw's claims of normality were buffeted on several fronts last week. In the western city of Poznan, site of the bloody "bread and freedom" riots of 1956, 194 protesters were reportedly jailed after marching through the streets bearing leaflets proclaiming DEATH TO THE REDS. In a Warsaw streetcar, a police sergeant was gravely wounded when an unidentified attacker shot him in the stomach and fled. In addition, a number of minor bombings were reported...
...Streetcar Named Desire--Saturday and Sunday at 2:50 and 7:30 p.m., Monday and Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.; Brattle Theater...
...that I'm a very good comedienne. But I was always fighting that image too. I just never had the luck to play bitches. Those are the only parts that ever register really." Two bitches she almost played were Blanche du Bois in the Broadway version of A Streetcar Named Desire and Margo Channing in All About Eve. But movie contracts kept her from the first part and a skiing accident from the second, which went to Bette Davis. In A Talent for Murder, Colbert is playing for fun once again, as a witty but alcoholic writer of mysteries...
...styles," Feinstein takes particular delight in the fact that San Francisco is one of only four major U.S. cities operating in the black. Last week she was able to announce a 10.4% increase in the city budget, allowing her to hire 91 badly needed policemen and 33 bus and streetcar workers. Still, the increase is the smallest in three years...