Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warning that Arnheiter's relief at the hands of junior officers would erode authority throughout the service, Alexander brought his complaint directly to Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius. "Mr. Secretary," the four-striper argued in his statement, "what all of your officers will demand to know is just how in hell this could happen in the United States Navy...
...Negro followers call him "Ajax, the White Knight": "Black solidarity is a black identity to combat what is going on all around us. This is the prelude to real brotherhood and justice. Power is essential to black people in that with it they can move to a position to demand what is theirs. It teaches respect, and respect always precedes true brotherhood and love...
...Beginning of five-day hunger strike protesting the quota system for allowing seniors to have their own apartments. Twenty-seven Cliffies fast to demand that all seniors have option to live in non-college housing...
Neither the call nor the clarification was forthcoming. What emerged was a profile of the dilemma of U.S. education. During three hours of morning talks, Coleman and Samuel S. Bowles, assistant professor of Economics, debated methodology to an uncomprehending audience. Then Preston Wilcox, Negro sociologist, delivered the ghettos' demand: put up or shut up; integrate or give blacks their schools, but do it now. On the one hand the experts quarreled. On the other the time bomb ticked in the ghettos...
...hole. But he managed to convince subcontractors that they would get their money, then borrowed $700,000 to build an apartment house in Arlington, Va. This time he hit pay dirt, and in nine months realized a $200,000 profit. As the Government grew and the housing demand picked up, Wolman's fortunes soared. Just 16 years after arriving in Washington, he was worth $35 million, on paper. His real estate holdings stretched from Philadelphia to Chicago, where the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. helped finance a Wolman scheme for a 100-story office-residential building...