Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain: 1) accept the demands put forward by the Chinese workers in Hong Kong, 2) stop all "fascist measures," 3) free all who were arrested, 4) punish the police who made the arrests and compensate the "victims" for time in jail, and 5) pledge that similar incidents would not happen again. To keep the pressure on, crowds ransacked the home of the British consul in Shanghai; a "support Hong Kong" parade was held in Canton, and a monster rally of 100,000 turned out in Peking...
...blind, black reaction against all that science stood for-against all that meant human advance and progress and understanding." Yet Rabi had no hesitation about pushing ahead with the atomic bomb. "We all felt we were in a race," he said. "And we shuddered to think what would happen if the other side won." Only after the war did Rabi worry about the fact that the U.S. was left with "a power that no nation on earth should have." Rabi spent much of his nonteaching time after that in pushing ardently for world disarmament, organized the first international conference...
...conquering were continued in the camps and helped transform the shrinking group of survivors into near beasts. At length came the Treblinka uprising-one of the few in any Nazi camp-and 600 prisoners escaped to a nearby forest. All but 40 were hunted down. That the uprising could happen at all in such circumstances emerges as something of a miracle of resistance...
Another reason for refusing the change was that the proposal had not gone through the proper channels, the Masters said. Not only did it happen too fast, without time for all that "searching and evaluation" that Gill talked about, but it came from a single House. "Many of them thought that they should not be bothered by a proposal coming from one House or from one individual," Stewart said. "They thought that it should come from the HUC, a more representative body...
...committal. First, he read a prepared statement, saying the administration wished to "carry on a dialogue with the students." Then asked whether he would drop the charges, Pierce said, "I'm not a lawyer, I don't know the law.... I don't know what's going to happen," and walked off the stage...