Word: got
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There were a lot of different ideas [that spring], but we were of the generation of 'let a thousand flowers bloom,'" says Temma Kaplan, a Harvard graduate student who was arrested in University Hall. "But things got rougher after the Harvard strike. We stopped dancing. Things got more ideological...
...subsequent fight to abolish the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) on campus, Skotnes says "there were very frequent demonstrations that got more and more confrontational. The demonstrations were striking because there was participation by young kids and the confrontation would start, and then all hell would break loose...
...What was remarkable is that the president and students compromised and there was no violence," Grele says. But, he adds, Cornell's president "got a lot of heat for not coming in and busting heads...
...Black students with guns in the media, but not the 3000 white students in support of them," says Murray, who was a Cornell undergraduate in spring, 1969, when Cornell's Black students took over the student union. But Murray adds that even at the mass demonstrations, "we never got any heavy busts at Cornell because we were well-sheltered by the liberal faculty...
...orangish brown wool pants with pride--my Mom had patched with a big black patch the rip at the knee from getting knocked down the steps by the cops. Did I get clubbed, kicked, or shoved down the steps? I don't know; I shut my eyes when they got within a few yards of me."--Dale Borman Fink...