Word: moved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Candidate Richard Nixon promised last year "to halt the inflationary trend in our fiscal and monetary policies, to check the drift that defeats our purposes and steadily narrows our range of choices." Now that he has begun to move cautiously against the inflation that last month shaved another half-cent of value from the already shrunken consumer dollar, Nixon has found his range of choices narrowed by both economic factors and a strong-willed Congress...
Fine Longhand. Last week the Senator made his move. Sirhan's jury had voted the death penalty on April 23, and Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker was considering a motion to reduce the sentence. Kennedy drafted a plea for mercy in his fine longhand. He sent copies to Ethel, Sisters Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, and his mother, Rose. They had discussed the matter before; all approved the text. Then Ted sent his original copy to Judge Walker. "My brother was a man of love and sentiment and compassion," he wrote. "He would not have wanted his death...
...students from predominantly black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at a Greensboro lunch counter. Peaceful but determined, the Negroes vowed not to move until they were served - and thereby set the pattern of nonviolent sit-ins that dominated black protest for years. Last week A. & T. students in the tobacco and textile town traded shots with police and National Guards men for three days. The contrast capsuled the revolution in the mode of protest in the U.S. that has taken place...
...Louis plainclothesmen are ready to single out and arrest troublemakers. Houston Chief Herman Short is prepared to "meet force with overwhelming force." Los Angeles police have seven helicopters and an elaborate battle plan involving National Guard and Army Reserve units to cope with violence. Cleveland police are ready to move decisively if the recent conviction and death sentence of Fred ("Ahmed") Evans-a black nationalist who led the fatal ambush of three policemen and a civilian last summer-should touch off rioting there...
...soon as the 135 students can move into Mather, the other Houses will be able to start "deconverting" by assigning fewer students to now-overcrowded rooms. 'Our goal is to let every junior and senior have a single bedroom," Watson said...