Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of these actions is equivalent to wasting a vote; for this year, as never before, newsmen and the major candidates themselves are going to be watching the size of the protest vote. Not only, in other words, is it possible to retain moral integrity by this course of action, but one can also effectively register opposition to the inadequacies of all three major candidates and to the backward looking American system which produced and sanctions them...
...Common, which used to be the community's commercial center for the sale and barter of drugs. The business has been forcibly de-centralized since last August, when 200 to 300 hippies who had been eating, sleeping and trading on the Common were challenged by a midnight curfew. To protest, they staged sleepins, and there were several nights of rioting with police before the hippies grew tired and scattered to other living places...
Whether they want it or not, university leaders were this month handed a powerful new club against unruly protest by Congress. It passed an amendment to the Higher Education Act that would cut off all forms of federal aid to any student who has "contributed to substantial disruption" of a college. The threat hangs over the head of any student who has a federal loan, educational opportunity grant, loan insurance, fellowship or subsidized part-time job. Nearly one-fifth of all college students fall into one or another of those categories...
...named as the site, arguments raged over the possible effects of its 7,349-foot altitude on the athletes. Sex became a bitter issue when international sports federations started demanding a gender test of all female competitors, and some girls withdrew rather than submit to the embarrassment. A worldwide protest that threatened to close down the whole show forced the International Olympic Committee to reinstate its ban on segregated South Africa. All year long, black militants in the U.S. tried - and fortunately failed-to organize a boycott by Negro athletes. In a final crisis, the bloody student riots in Mexico...
...dispute unraveled rapidly thereafter. McCoy refused to wait for a hearing and 250 of the district's 350 teachers walked out in protest. When a black arbiter ruled this summer that the teachers should be allowed to return to their posts, McCoy, instead of capitulating, added 100 teachers who had struck the previous spring to the list of instructors unacceptable to the community. In the meantime, the governing board hired replacements for the ostracized teachers...