Word: face
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this then the company or Harvard's fault? Yes, in the sense that they have failed to act on the problems blacks face in the workplace. Consider the situation at Harvard: a black painters' (or electricians' or plumbers') helper depends on a white journeyman for training. a white foreman judges his merit for promotion and, if he feels unfairly passed over, a black can complain to a white union...
Perhaps most disturbing of all was the gratuitous nastiness of the sit-in. Dean May was continually and harshly berated. After the sit-in in University Hall the demonstrators followed May through the Square to the Adams House Master's Residence, chanting and shouting in his face. They finally decided not to enter Master Lilier's house, but only after his wife pleaded with them not to force their...
...Give Peace a Chance," they had sung over and over on the vast grassy slope around the Washington Monument. "All we are saying is 'Give Peace a Chance, ' " sang the young college girl from New Brunswick, New Jersey, with a smile on her face and a woolly scarf around her throat. And they swayed in rhythm to the song-the marshals with arms linked ringing the speakers podium and keeping order in the crowd...
Finally, a bus came along. Joyously, I forked over the thirty-two cents that I had carefully reserved for just such a contingency earlier in the day. I was pleased with my foresightedness, because in D.C. you have to have exact change and even a streetfighter has to face reality every now and again...
...read two statements Wednesday telling the demonstrators that they were violating the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, and warring them that if they continued to block his exit, they would face disciplinary action...