Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...institution and its students. A year earlier Radcliffe had merged housing with Harvard and many feared Radcliffe would soon be absorbed completely. At the same time there was heightened activism over quotas on women admits-a majority of the Class of 1972 wore red armbands at Commencement to protest the quota...
JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers beat to death a 15 year old Palestinian youth in the Gaza Strip and his burial yesterday turned into a violent protest in which troops shot and wounded four Arabs. U.N. and Arab reports said...
Four Arabs were wounded by gunfire, including a 10-year-old boy shot in the right thigh and a 17-year-old shot in the chest, according to officials at Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City. A fifth Palestinian was shot in both legs in a separate protest in Gaza City, said officials at Shifa Hospital...
...going to be a brawl," says Cohen. "We prepared with that expectation." In the last of the three rehearsals, Rather was warned that Bush might bring up what Rather calls "the Miami thing," the blackout last September when a bristling Rather stomped off the Evening News set to protest CBS's decision to allow the U.S. Open tennis match to cut into the broadcast...
...activists. The Humane Society of the U.S., based in Washington, is planning an all-out advertising campaign. Says Vice President John Grandy: "We believe that if society became aware of the animals' suffering, it would choose against fur." The Pennsylvania-based Trans-Species Unlimited plans a Valentine's Day protest at major-city stores. Its slogan: "Have a heart for wildlife...