Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czestochowa," or "standing by" during anti-regime demonstrations. Tens of thousands of peasants have been left by the roadside, in their Sunday clothes and with bouquets in their hands, patiently awaiting the passage of the replica of the Black Madonna, whose journey was interrupted by the government. Partly in protest, churches are filling with students who stop by between classes, before lunch, or in the evening for benediction...
...start loving us"), some 1,000 angry student demonstrators marched on party headquarters, defiantly shouting church slogans and singing the national anthem. They were scattered by police armed with tear gas and rubber truncheons. But it seemed unlikely that Wladyslaw Gomulka had heard the last of the protest...
...itself was damned in another fashion. Cedric Richards resigned in protest from the parish council, hinting that the reason the company was allowed to "ride roughshod" was because it had bought off some of his fellow citizens. Beresford Worswick, a crusty fugitive from London, summoned the Royal Fine Art Commission to inspect the scene. The commission expressed regret that "a film company should have made alterations to an exceptional English village, instead of adopting the more acceptable practice of building a film set to represent an English village...
...that deposits are no longer growing at the former rate, the bank is rapidly approaching the moment of truth. In order to survive, the bank must make a public choice. It can make an all-out effort to enlist the support of the community over the protest of white depositors and board members, thus attracting a sufficiently large number of small accounts from the "man in the street" to survive. But the directors have made little effort to gain the sympathy of the masses. "When we have to read about what Freedom National is doing in the papers or hear...
...error of omission in an otherwise fair report on the protest against Secretary McNamara's honorary degree from Amherst: although the guests stood to applaud him after the students walked out, roughly half the faculty on the platform remained seated. The same was true after he received the degree. We speak for those seated who admire his personal qualities but deplore his part in Viet Nam policies...