Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were other indications of growing impatience, both with wavering college presidents and radical student groups. At Cornell, the board of trustees ordered President James Perkins to implement a ten-point program that would protect the school against "tactics of terror." In Cambridge, a judge found all but four of 173 defendants guilty of criminal trespass during their occupation of a Harvard administration building last month. At the same time, Harvard undergraduates ignored the urgings of the S.D.S. and voted by a 3-to-l margin against resumption of their student strike...
They do help to relate the university to the outside world, to protect it, to interpret it, and to try to introduce into the university concerns from the outside world of which there should be an awareness inside...
...Belfast's water supply in half. Post offices and a bus station were set aflame by fire bombs; police stations were stoned. Ten-year-olds trotted home from school with extracurricular instructions for making Molotov cocktails. More than 1,000 British soldiers moved into position throughout Ulster to protect reservoirs, telephone exchanges and power stations. Moderate Prime Minister Captain Terence O'Neill's days in office seemed numbered as extremism mounted. "We are on the brink of bloodshed," former Deputy Prime Minister Brian Faulkner warned. "Perhaps this is our last chance to halt on the brink, before...
...repeated taunts. Negro leaders vowed to set up their own black studies center without the university's assistance. Townspeople were disturbed by the Negroes' increasing aggressiveness. When a cross was burned in front of the Negro coeds' dormitory, militants warned that they were determined to "protect our black women." What angered the blacks even more was the decision of the student-faculty committee to "reprimand" three of the December demonstrators after all. In retaliation, the blacks seized Straight Hall...
...private air force owned and operated by Japanese newspapers. Pilot Kumon flies full time for Asahi, Japan's largest daily (circ. 5,350,000), and his flight last week brought the world its first news, complete with pictures, of the U.S. Navy's massive move to protect electronic spy missions off Korea. His crewman's photographs of the U.S. carrier gave Asahi a brief edge in Japan's intense press rivalry, but some ten other press planes, including those of the rival dailies Yomiuri, Mainichi and Sankei, also patrolled the sea last week for pictures...