Word: leafleted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Importing Rhodesian Products supports a Racist Government," the leaflet pronounced in large letters. "Refuse to Unload Rhodesian Goods!" According to the American Friends Service Committee, the African Liberation Support Group, and the other organizations which had set up the demonstration, the Sun carried goods exported from Rhodesia. The picketers had come out so early this bright morning to urge the dockworkers to refuse to unload the ship and to support an international boycott against goods from Rhodesia...
...Real Dent. For its authors and editors, Scott, Foresman has prepared a detailed leaflet called Guidelines for Improving the Image of Women in Textbooks. Among these guidelines are suggestions like "Avoid constructions implying that women, because they are women, are always dependent on male initiative." For example, rather than stating "The ancient Egyptians allowed women considerable control over property," a historian is requested to write: "Women in Egypt had considerable control over property." Macmillan and several other major publishers are revamping their textbooks, but no real dent has yet been made in their backlists, where sexism infects thousands of titles...
Then Monday, as the news of the planned lecture circulated, attacks multiplied. A group of 20 professors calling themselves the Harvard Committee Against Racism came out against the debate and threatened to leaflet the debate if it took place as scheduled. Harvard-Radcliffe SDS announced it would circulate a petition against the debate...
...Because of the old, faulty method of assigning quotas, Winthrop people are getting screwed," a leaflet distributed by the group said. The leaflet urged Winthrop residents to call Genevieve H. Austin, assistant dean of students, and "show your concern." By afternoon, more than 20 residents had done...
...male residents of Holmes Hall came in drag to an informal women's dinner-discussion that was being held in the dining hall. On Friday night, the Freshman Union witnessed a dinner for male-chauvinist pigs. In the Fall, a group of men living at Radcliffe circulated a leaflet charging "Sexism at Radcliffe" after males were asked to leave a meeting with Matina Horner sponsored by the Women's Center...