Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When those little black girls walked even amidst turmoil into those schools in Little Rock and Birmingham, we all thought that it was a new day. We built our hope out of protest: in the movement in the early sixties, in protesting the war, in rallying around McCarthy...
...have to have not only protest but alternatives, at every level of politics," Bond said. "It's going to take everyone that can be enlisted, everyone that's sick of the politics of today--the politics that has kept us looking over our shoulders instead of at the road ahead." He spoke of organizing people at the local level, on campuses and in communities, of mobilizing old forms of political power and looking for new ones...
...Many of the ideas that I'm talking about aren't new--it's just that we haven't had the power to institutionalize them. I think we've got the ideas and objectives already; we defined them through protest. But we can't rely on hope any more. The next job is getting political power behind them--this is the job of today and the next four years...
...many observers, rugby looks like disorganized football, but any Harvard rugger will vehemently protest that it is merely unencumbered. The game is played on a 100-yard field, wider than a football gridiron, and has goalposts at either end. Crossing the goal and touching the ball down, called a "try," is worth three points, and a conversion kick immediately afterwards counts for two. In addition, penalty kicks, which also count for three points, are awarded for certain infractions...
Officers estimated the much-heralded Protest rally drew 30,000 demonstrators into the capital-about half the number expected by organizers, but still the biggest demonstration seen in London for many years...