Word: demande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erwin chucked when the group demanded his resignation. He ignored a similar demand by the Daily Texan. He also chuckled when the football-minded Texas-Exes gave him the "Distinguished Axe" award and a little poem that ended with "only Frank can kill a tree." By now everybody was mad at Erwin- the tree people and others who already resented the fact that he eliminated PEO. (PEO was a very successful program for admitting and funding a few highly motivated students from minority group- which counting blacks, Mexican-Americans, and Indians, make up 46 per cent of the state...
...Weathermen will demonstrate in front of the Cambridge Police station at 2 p.m. today to demand the release of James W. Paradise, a 16-year-old dropout who has been associated with the Weathermen...
...response to the students' demand that a black man be promoted to crew chief, Harvard has appointed a black helper to the post of assistant foreman in Buildings and Grounds. No black helpers are eligible for promotion by the seniority system on which Harvard presently works...
...some of us worry. The questions of modernity and breaking loose, of style and dealing with the influence of others cannot be ignored. We spring back and forth between comfort and demand, between our consciousness of tradition and our need to invent-but we never seem to be able to leap beyond the gravity of our certain custom; we are never able to forge something really new or wonderful...
...unfortunate racial overtones. At lunch he growled at her: "Pass the salt; it isn't black." She and Brown finally stopped talking altogether. The picture was execrable. But it cost only $6 million and raked in money. Another south-of-the-border oater, Bandolero, gave Raquel the opportunity to demand of Dean Martin, "How duss hay man get to be han hanimal like ju?" Such lines at least scotched rumors that Raquel was a crypto-Chicano; her accent was pure Hollywood...