Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matters except foreign policy and defense, and Mujibur Rahman stumped the eastern part of the country gathering support. Then early last month, the government arrested Mujibur Rahman and 20 other top Awami leaders for stirring up trouble. Last week's strike was Awami's form of protest...
...similarity between the Classes of 1917 and 1941 was not limited to the fact that both went to war, for the First World War also saw a significant amount of anti-war protest...
...Harvard Student Union, a leftist political organization that was determined to keep the United States out of the war in Europe. From September of 1939 on September of 1941 they waged a campaign that rivals in intensity and conviction anything that Students for the Democratic Society has done in protest against the war in Vietnam...
Although the isolationists continued to form new committees and to protest, they soon lost the support of most undergraduates. A week after the rival rallies in the Yard ended in a near riot, a poll conducted by the Student Defense League revealed that 84 of 99 students in Eliot House favored substantial military aid to Britain. Enrollment in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps was rising rapidly and every poll of Harvard students showed strong support for intervention on the side of the Allies...
...Anti-war protests at Harvard followed essentially the same pattern in the First and Second World Wars. While the United States was still uncommitted and indecisive, students organized and petitioned and argued and protested. But once America became involved the dissension disappeared. The Vietnam war protest at Harvard is unique in the history of the University, not because is exists at all -- for Harvard has a long tradition of anti-war process -- but because it has not voluntarily dissolved itself as soon as the first American bullets were fired, as soon as the first American soldiers were killed