Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge City Council last night overwhelmingly defeated a motion to bill President Nixon for expenses incurred by the City during the Harvard Square riot and CFIA trashing two weeks...
...excellent legitimate history of the Scottish borders, The Steel Bonnets (Knopf), has just been published. Equipped with nothing more than a few basic history texts and a taste for turpitude, Fraser now appears to be parlaying the fictional recollections of his imaginary character into something closely resembling a perpetual motion novel. Of course it helps to have a rotter like Harry Flashman up front. "Bluff, my boy-bluff, shift and lie for the sake of your neck and the honor of Old England." "Charles Elliott
...encouraging" everyone to stay away from class. And then, the Tuesday night meeting was consumed with theological disputes about whether we should all continue the "strike." The absurdity of the meeting reached high pitch when the sponsor of a proposal "to end the boycott of classes" announced that his motion could be considered a "friendly amendment" to another proposal which asked "that all University students continue to strike." With overlapping definitions, it was possible for someone to maintain that we could abandon the strike while we remained on strike, and few people raised a whimper...
...again the timing and organization which have characterized their seven-day occupation of the building. The exit was carried out with style and bravado. Unfortunately, the cohesiveness of Afro and PALC has not extended to the Harvard strike, which has fallen into complete disarray. Tuesday night, after rejecting a motion to continue the strike in its present form, over one sixth of the persons at the Sanders Theatre strike meeting voted to reconsider the question. It then passed by a 324-190 margin, and the meeting adjourned after two and a half hours of aimless debate, although there were...
Members of the Ad Hoc Military Buildup Committee brought before the Council the motion which demands that the Federal government: 1) disclose the full extent of the U.S. commitment in Indochina, including the number of planes dispatched and tons of bombs dropped: 21 cease lulling the American people into complacency by mechanizing the war:30 withdraw all U.S. troops from Vietnam...