Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council approval of another citizens' proposal--that the city take over property by eminent domain, is an entirely different proposition. What's more, the opponents of the gym want the state legislature to change a state law to limit the expansion of all academic institutions in Cambridge, and this move seems to have an even smaller chance of success...
PERHAPS AT THE VERY BASE of American society, underlying both its problems and its achievements, is the urge to move. The spirit of restlessness pervades our literatire, from Melville's Ishmael to Pynchon's search for V. It's what animates us all, even if sometimes against our will--an instinct for the new, the wish to leave behind old codes and traverse charted boundaries, to look for a better life, or, at any rate, a fresh...
...liberate a stitching factory for the factory's mostly-Puerto Rican workers. The workers, who don't understand a lick of English, are terrified, and instead of joining the students' assault on the factory, are on the sidewalks looking on as interested by-standers when the cops move...
...publicity campaign, distributing glossy brochures in the wealthier Los Angeles subdivisions where black professionals tend to cluster. The brochures showed blacks playing tennis on valley courts and partying on the sundecks of $60,000 ranch homes. Black radio stations broadcast a jingle urging Los Angeles listeners to "Move on in, move on into the valley...
...students' group immediately issued a statement welcoming the council's vote, but demanding once again that the special committee move beyond "investigating" the issue and take concrete action before the end of the year...