Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduced for general prescription in 1961, at least 10 million U.S. women have taken them; about 7,000,000 are using them now. Despite the natural assumption that such popularity must be deserved, the Pill has provoked an almost equally strong countercurrent of opposition and denunciation. Anti-Pill crusaders demand that it be taken off the market, claiming that it is killing scores if not hundreds of American women every year, maiming ten times as many and making others infertile. More than a hundred lawsuits are pending against manufacturers...
...People are just getting nuts about things," says Ruth Boyd, a dealer in Portland, Me. Nudged by demand, a fantastic avalanche of bear traps, Ball mason jars, Prince Albert tobacco tins, grocery scales and mustache cups is pouring onto dealers' shelves. The rust and dust of their long exile in cellars and attics are as carefully preserved as the patina on a Louis XV fauteuil. Green glass electric insulators, the kind still visible high on telephone poles in parts of the country, are selling briskly at about $2.50 apiece from Poland, Me., to San Francisco; they are used inside...
Like a Pharmacy. Her self-service stores, which are divided into departments by large signs that make them resemble supermarkets, can hardly keep up with the demand. The one in Stuttgart has been so busy since it opened last December that at least once a day the manager hangs out a sign that reads, "Closed for a few minutes because of overcrowding." When that happens, people gather on the street and gawk at the merchandise in the windows. As customers come out with their red-and-white shopping bags labeled "Beate Uhse," more stream into the store. The interior looks...
Last night's meeting also voted a petition campaign to reiterate the seven demands, commend those who occupied University Hall, and demand that they not be punished. The petition will also urge that no one cooperate with the Committee of 15 by talking informally with any member of it and that the Committee be dissolved...
Discussion of the Teamsters' strike at Gordon Linen ended without a proposal, but Malcolm Russell suggested the possibility of organizing to demand refunds from the company if linen is not delivered...