Word: evict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the start of the occupation, the Administration followed a sit-tight policy, preferring to pursue increasingly severe legal sanctions against the demonstrators rather than use police power to evict them. And despite the worries of some frantic letter-writing alumni who scorned the trespass on sacred University property (Mass Hall is Harvard's oldest brick structure, built in 1720), the strategy paid off. Only a week after the occupation began, the blacks decided to vacate the building rather than face heavy fines and jail sentences...
THERE was a striking lack of official comment from Washington and Moscow last week on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's sudden decision to evict his army of Soviet advisers. In fact, it was almost as if this strange turn in Middle Eastern affairs had not taken place at all. There was, of course, a good reason why the two big powers were maintaining a low profile: neither seemed to have a clear idea of what could, or should, happen next. The two superpowers seemed equally nonplussed by the diplomatic setback that a client state had handed one of them...
university spokesmen said yesterday that the demonstrators were quiet and peaceful and that no attempts were being made of evict them...
...thing that's clear now is that we'll be here when they come," Robinson said, in reference to the possibility that police may be called in to evict the demonstrators...
...sessions that touched on the relationship between science and society. Eight protesters, for example, sprawled on the floor while panelists discussed ways of meeting U.S. energy needs without jeopardizing the environment. In spite of such annoyances, however, A.A.A.S. leaders were remarkably indulgent, rarely if ever calling on police to evict demonstrators. Indeed, at times the politicking seemed to be welcomed, as when a tall, blonde model passed out literature for a splinter group called the Federation of American Scientists...