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Word: evict (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university administrators began to realize toward week's end that they had miscalculated. Their hard-line decision to forcibly evict the street people from the park, which led to the military occupation, had backfired. In effect, they had relinquished their freedom of action to the police and troopers. Chancellor Heyns, who earlier had refused to compromise university control of the tract, now indicated that he might negotiate. The university issued conciliatory statements, and Heyns asked for removal of non-university police from the campus. A substantial number of police left the university grounds, and arrests in that area dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Occupied Berkeley | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

More than 100 dissidents from Enfield College of Technology staged a sit-down outside the London borough's civic center to protest a town-council decision to evict a band of gypsies from their caravan site. They were joined by Bernadette Devlin, 22, Britain's angry young Member of Parliament from Northern Ireland, who devoured soft ice cream and spouted hard politics. The peppery lass harangued the crowd for about ten minutes, declaring: "If the citizens of England allow the gypsies to be evicted without protest, they cannot go to church and say 'I love my brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 23, 1969 | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...current plans to evict tenants or demolish" the University Road apartment building, at 122 Mt. Auburn St. Construction of the Kennedy Library complex might lead Harvard to "consider altering the use of the site," the statement said. But such acion is at least four or five years away, it said, and the "effect upon the tenants will be carefully studied . . . before any action is taken...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Corporation Approves Of Faculty Resolution In 'Letter and Spirit' | 4/29/1969 | See Source »

...would also lose a lot of color it Jock Semple disassociated himself from the great event. Jock used to try to evict the girls from the race since they are illegal, but he's given up on that. Now he just curses at anything that attracts his attention and condemns the jokers in his Marathon. But Jock likes a few people...

Author: By Benito Playa, | Title: Crimson Editors Set for Marathon | 4/21/1969 | See Source »

...first thing that has to be done is to halt construction," said Hayden Duggan, a member of SDS and a researcher for the Committee on Radical Structural Reform. The central issue in his mind is the needs of the community. "You just don't evict 182 families without making adequate provisions for their relocation; you just don't do it," he said...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Radicals Face Liberals as The Med School Expands And the People Get Caught in the Middle | 4/19/1969 | See Source »

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