Word: attends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli victory last year that, as one fedayeen commander puts it, "handed us the Arab people on a golden platter." Students quit their classes to sign up as terrorists. Doctors abandoned their practices in Beirut and Cairo to come to Jordan to attend wounded fedayeen. Arab businessmen offered supplies and purchased weapons, and the Saudi and Kuwait governments began diverting to fedayeen coffers funds usually contributed to Jordan's budget. Individual contributions by the thousands poured in from Arabs throughout the Middle East and those abroad; the wife of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal sent...
...That struggle really began, however, in 1912, when Sir Ewan was born, registered a female and baptized Elizabeth. As he grew up, Elizabeth became more and more convinced that he was, in fact, male. "It was hell," he recalled in a 1952 interview, "especially when I was forced to attend the debutante balls during my first London season." By the time he left his Scottish home to study medicine, he had cropped his hair and begun to wear male clothing. But officially, it was as a woman that he took his degree and went into general practice in Scotland...
...order was helped by a Committee for an Academic Environment, organized by proadministration students. Wearing blue armbands, committee supporters confronted strikers in shouting matches-countering "Shut it down!" with "Keep it open!"-and denounced the militants as "Gestapo pigs" for abridging the rights of students who wanted to attend classes...
...announcing that the Festival would host speakers who might later attend meetings for blacks only--possibly including meetings sponsored by Harvard Afro--Master Bruce Chalmers said, "We can't expect to control what these people do in private after they have done what they were invited to do here...
Harold Cruse made the same comments privately about blacks. He and Roy Innis, director of CORE, were the only two blacks at the conference, though Charles V. Hamilton Jr. was invited and did not attend...