Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are many ways to express opposition to unjust laws and unfair conditions. The sit-ins and freedom rides of the early 1960's were moving expressions of opposition to segregation laws. In addition, marches such as the 1963 Civil Rights March and the 1968 Poor People's March, helped the passage of more just laws. Democracy is infinitely perfectable--and infinitely imperfect, it does not thrive when its citizens are passive about injustice...
...deadline for applications is March...
...President Johnson's standards, the bombing halt is probably a genuine victory. Twice now, the President has satisfied his critics and paid a military price smaller than they thought necessary. Before March, 1968 dissenters argued for a halt of all bombing in the North as the only way of bringing the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table. Johnson halted it half-way and the North Vietnamese came to Paris. As the talks stalemated this summer, critics called for an unconditional halt of the bombing to revitalized the peace effort. President Johnson held out for a reciprocal gesture from the North...
...also fortunate to arrive at the time of a new detente cordiale between the U.S. and France. Chip Bohlen, Shriver's predecessor, got along well enough with De Gaulle personally. But official relations began to thaw only after President Johnson restricted the bombing of North Viet Nam in March. De Gaulle hailed that as "an act of reason and political courage." The general was no less pleased with the choice of Paris as the site for the Washington-Hanoi negotiations. Then came France's May riots, which shook the Gaullist monolith and weakened the franc; the Shrivers deplaned...
...sign of the trend's strength is the arrival in the U.S. of European bankers similar to the march of U.S. banks into Europe during the 1950s. Within the past year, British, German, Dutch and Belgian investment and commercial bankers have considerably expanded operations in New York-the better to serve the growing European encampment...