Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irate Mattapan citizen called the MBTA plans an "insidious power play" made without public consultation. A resolution was then passed to demand a public hearing on the issue...
...Walkouts. The rival National Education Association was flexing its muscles, too. The Pennsylvania State Education Association called on its 80,000 teachers to shut down the state's schools for one day this week and undertake a march on Harrisburg to demand higher pay. The Oklahoma Education Association scheduled a similar one-day walkout, urged its 27,000 teachers to attend a rally in Oklahoma City to apply pressure on the state legislature for more school money. In South Dakota, the state's Education Association declared a "sanctions alert" in a drive to increase salaries and legislative...
Died. Stanley Berman, 41, Brooklyn cab driver and self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Gate-Crasher"; of a blood infection; in Brooklyn. No occasion was too exclusive, no dignitary too aloof for Berman, who posed as a waiter to demand Queen Elizabeth II's autograph during her 1957 visit, crashed J.F.K.'s Inaugural Ball in 1961, and had his finest moment in 1962 when he charged onstage to hand Bob Hope an Oscar in front of 100 million TV watchers...
...this time of life. Probably few terms have come back to haunt their progenitor more perniciously than this one. Whenever a sophisticated adolescent scents trouble from an authority figure, he tends to justify himself on the ground of validity of his "identity crisis," and on this basis, to demand acceptance and even succor. In a way, this perverse reaction points up Erikson's meaning which is in no way invalidated by its abuse. For Erikson points to the late adolescent's subjectivity, his seclusiveness, his rebellion against his environment as well as the opposites of these traits--his striving...
...legal tribunal, and don't want to be one," Porte said. "It would limit our flexibility and demand all our time. But in light of new questions about punishment and self-in-crimination, we're going to have to look at this policy again...