Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat of a nationwide railroad strike to protest the govern ment's decision to hold wage increases to 3½% a year. Wilson met it smoothly...
...writing to you in protest of the astronomical prices of drugs which must be obtained on prescription in the Square. On Tuesday February 9, I was given a prescription for ointment from Dr. Ryack at the University Health Center. When I asked Dr. Ryack how much I should get he told me that I did not need very much and that recently he had bought some of the same thing for his wife and it cost him 25 cents. It cost me $2.00 at the College House Pharmacy...
...blue cards distributed at registration hardly seem worth all the protest and criticism they aroused. Students who signed them merely gave the University permission to send their grades to local draft boards. Before complying with the requests of the boards, University officials will continue to notify students and seek their consent. If the number of requests rises significantly the registrar's office may have to send the grades without prior notification. But it is difficult to imagine a case in which a student would refuse his draft board a copy of his grades--virtually daring the board to reclassify...
...writing to protest the university's thoughtless cruelty in denying scholarships to the graduate students who filed their applications late. This is cruel because many of the students were not properly reminded of the dead-line and some have reasons for their tardiness; and it is depressing for the attitude it reveals towards the whole business of graduate scholarships...
...consider the protest a failure, though the government has not changed its position. "Many families in Madrid had first-hand reports of what went on; when they say what the newspapers said about it they realized perhaps for the first time, that the Spanish press lies...