Word: worked
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...mood. Gdansk (pop. 370,000) had seethed for days with resentment at the Polish government's sudden announcement of a dramatic rise in food prices, the more infuriating since it came just before Christmas. Now, at the Lenin Shipyards, grumbling workers spontaneously protested the hike by refusing to work. Before long, they decided to emphasize their anger by marching from the yards to Communist Party headquarters two miles away. Thus began a week of rioting and death that surpassed anything Eastern Europe has experienced in years and shook to its foundations the Communist regime of Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka...
...increases were necessary if even a modest economic revision were to work. But Warsaw's timing could not have been worse. Posted eleven days before Christmas in a staunchly Roman Catholic nation where the birth of Jesus is celebrated with gluttonous enthusiasm, the price rises were a direct provocation. Even the poorest family, for instance, sits down to a nine-course "Vigil Dinner" on Christmas Eve. So great was irritation over the government's moves that only a spark was needed to transform it into rebellion. The Lenin Shipyards provided that spark...
...These are the tragic consequences of a lack of prudence," Cyrankiewicz told the nation. "Hostile forces are trying to create new centers of anarchy, disturb the rhythm of normal work in factories and disorganize the life of the country." They included anarchists, hooligans and criminal elements, he said. He threatened that "organs of militia, the security service and cooperating organs are under obligation to take up all legal means of enforcement-including the use of weapons against all persons committing acts of violence...
After World War I, he began to work as a Communist labor organizer and in 1932 received the first of his many jail sentences from a right-wing Polish government. All told, Gomulka has spent about ten years of his life in confinement or prison. When Warsaw surrendered to the Germans at the onset of World War II, Gomulka joined the resistance movement under the Soviet aegis. At war's end, he became First Secretary of the party and a minister in Poland's new Communist-dominated Government of National Unity. But Gomulka, an ardent nationalist as well...
Without hesitation, their faces screwed up in concentration, the pre-teen poets attack their papers. Soon anxious hands wave in the air -"Mr. Koch! Mr. Koch!"-as the children bid to have their work approved. Koch bounces to each raised hand, never failing to be delighted with what he discovers...