Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...funds, which they consider the backbone of the service, have been dramatically slashed, from $5.8 billion this fiscal year to $4.7 billion next. This will permit the construction of only 15 new vessels instead of the 29 planned by the Ford Administration's budget projections. Not since Pearl Harbor, protest some Navymen, have so many ships been sunk at one time. This reduction, moreover, appears to be only the first of many. The Administration's five-year shipbuilding plan, submitted in late March, gives the Navy 70 new ships, costing $32 billion, through fiscal 1983. This is only half...
...message of support to an Israeli peace group that had urged Begin to be more flexible in negotiations. Last week in Israel 4,000 members of an organization called Peace Now lined up along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway in a demonstration on behalf of that cause. The gentle protest hardly daunted the peppery Begin, who told a more militant group known as Secure Peace: "We are called upon to do things likely to endanger our existence and our future, but to these demands we will respond with one small, quiet, great word...
...Globe's John Powers (on the apartheid protest): "You know, everyone was down on Nixon, but I loved the guy. He moved the troops into Cambodia and got me out of 80 pages of papers and three finals...
Although the stated goal--to actually hold the site and stop construction--was not achieved, the action was universally seen as an enormous success. Almost overnight opposition to nuclear power became perhaps the most potent protest movement in the country, with at least 20 alliances, patterned after Clamshell, springing up across the nation...
During last week's demonstrations, marches and sit-outs to protest Harvard's support of apartheid, an image of myself as a scrawny 12-year-old kid standing in a deserted Harvard Square one afternoon nine years ago repeatedly crossed my mind. Shops had closed early, their windows boarded up, in anticipation of a demonstration later that night...