Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large number of the students--no means all--became political activists; these were the days of TOCSIN, and smoke-filled hallways. Quincy's image was one of house affiliated student protest and high ranking politicoes...
...Williams first saw the profusion of ads in the Democratic Party's glossy, 178-page paean to the 89th Congress entitled Toward an Age of Greatness, his own reaction was that the Republic was headed toward an age of "political blackmail." Rising on the Senate floor to protest the Democrats' $1,000,000 bonanza, Williams - nicknamed "Whispering Willie" because of his barely audible speaking voice - protested...
...change-from $260 million this fiscal year to $159 million in 1966-67 in federal subsidies for school lunches and recess milk. Though the President said that the remaining funds would be rechanneled to provide food for children "who need it most," his suggested savings stirred pious protest in Congress...
...group, the Inter-University Committee for Debate on Foreign Policy, Las called the teach-ins both to protest American policy in Vietnam and to counter public ignorance of that policy...
...that has been in on the information explosion since the beginning finds the gentle, sophisticated comedies of the '30s and '40s relics to be viewed on the museum of the Late Show. Their memories are less of Benchley than of Berkeley, and, in the absence of much protest humor, they have concentrated on deliberate absurdities that refuse to deal with the adult world. Such were the elephant jokes (What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jar of peanut butter? A peanut that never forgets or an elephant that sticks to the roof of your...