Word: bustingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...student takeover began April 9, 1969 and the bust took place early in the morning of April 10. But demonstrations and counter-demonstrations spurred by the takeover filled the Square before the bust and for several days afterward...
...bust, as it would come to be known, wouldonly take a few minutes. The last paddy wagonsleft the Yard at 5:25 a.m. In that time, 196students were arrested, and dozens injured. Anextra edition of The Crimson that morning captureda moment of the tumult inside the hall: "A shortbrown-haired girl was hurled against the room'swooden divider and a trooper shouted, 'If youdon't stay there I'll break your fuckin' head.'"By the time the police left, the sidewalk outsideUniversity Hall was spattered with blood...
...bust turned campus opinion upside down,aligning nearly everyone against the Harvardadministration. At a meeting in Memorial Churchthe afternoon of the takeover, students voted togo on strike against the University, refusing toattend classes...
...Faculty also endorsed the creation of theAfro-American studies department, another SDSdemand added after the takeover and bust at ameeting
...years this April since the takeover of University Hall by radical student protestors and the bloody "bust" by state and local police. But in some ways the smoke still hasn't cleared. The players in this drama still argue over who were the true barbarians--the building's occupiers or those who ejected them. Today's student activists struggle with their predecessors' legacy of destructive but successful radicalism. Two days of living dangerously have given way to three decades of reaction, regret and reflection...