Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Duke's bold and progressive plan came after weeks of mounting pressure from the student body for an increase in the school's minority faculty. At the same time, activists occupied school buildings at Williams College and the University of Vermont in protest over those schools' dismal records in the hiring of minority faculty. Penn State was the site of similar activity...
...blamed the Israelis for the assassination. Bassam Abu Sharif, the spokesman for P.L.O. Chairman Arafat, charged that Israeli leaders, frustrated by their inability to quell the Palestinian uprisings, had decided to "liquidate" senior P.L.O. members. Arafat, on a tour of the gulf states in search of support for the protest activities, was described as badly shaken by the slaying of his heir apparent...
...Comic in the Checkers speech. Comic in the "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" farewell following his defeat in the California gubernatorial election in 1962. In the clownish 5 o'clock shadow of the first Nixon-Kennedy television debate. In the "I am not a crook" protest. Lighting fires in the White House fireplace in the middle of summer. Kneeling with Henry Kissinger in prayer. Phone calls to Woody Hayes. Bebe Rebozo. Robert Abplanalp. Comic names, madcap circumstances. The man who exalted the "Enemies List," vowing not to hate his haters, waving bravely from the chopper door...
Waving signs and shouting "Homes, not bombs!" 20 people marched from Harvard Square to the State House yesterday afternoon to protest homelessness in Boston, particularly condominium conversions in the South and West Ends, and the shortage of affordable housing...
...Crimson's primary task is to gather news--not police student activists. If campus newspapers find out about a protest beforehand, they send reporters and then assess how significant it was. The editors then pass judgement on where to play the article or if they should publish it at all. Covering the news is a paper's responsibility. By ignoring any tip-offs, a paper would be abdicating its duty...