Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrators walked without protest to waiting school buses...
Before marching on the plant, members of the organizing Clamshell Alliance formed a large circle to honor the Chinese killed this weekend when troops crushed the student protest in Beijing...
...Dunster House Committee was among the first to protest vehemently against the considered changes in rules. Along with Thomas Seymour '64, president of the Harvard Council of Undergraduate Affairs (HCUA), the House Committee proposed a study of sexual practices at Harvard and organized a group to conduct the study and consider working to abolish parietals altogether. John Purvis '64 of the Dunster House Committee said then that, "it would be unfortunate if the privilege of entertaining a date in a natural setting were taken away because of vague suspicions...
...political skills of the student leaders. When three youths defaced a huge portrait of Mao in the square with blotches of red and black paint, students handed the vandals over to the People's Armed Police for punishment and replaced the portrait. The three best-known leaders of the protest, who proved to be almost as elusive as their political elders meeting in the western hills, are Guo Haifeng, 23, a graduate student in international politics at Peking University; Wang Dan, 20, a history major at Peking University; and Chai Ling, 23, a woman grad student in education at Beijing...
Fewer than 10,000 students remained in the square at week's end. Many of the original demonstrators had returned to campus, to be only partly replaced by students from outside the capital. With the protest fizzling, student leaders indicated that they would pull out by this Tuesday -- but vowed to stage a march through Beijing of 1 million people as a parting gesture...