Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more business as usual," she had told the overflow crowd, speaking in support of a motion to strike in protest of the Cambodian invasion and the killings at Kent State. "All business at Harvard should be shut down: every building should be closed and every office should not function...
Many different tribal groups, including the Lakoca (Sioux) from South Dakota, the Lummi Nation from Washington state, and members of the Algonquin nation from Michigan, sen, representatives to the protest. Some groups carried banners with symbols of their tribal groups...
WASHINGTON--Native Americans and their supporters, numbering from 750 to 1000 people, according to police estimates, converged on the Capitol yesterday afternoon, to protest 11 proposed legislative acts that they say would affect the rights and sovereignty of Indian nations...
...helped. Fistfights and swearing matches broke out. One drunken man took a swing at a woman purser, who thereupon screamed into the p.a. system, "Emergency! Emergency!" By then, the crew-including Greeks, Jamaicans and Koreans, who had difficulty communicating both with one another and with the guests-began to protest too. One maitre d' fled his dining room in dismay. Said he: "I'm going to stay and get killed by people...
Kris Kristofferson, a fine actor who has worked well with Peckinpah previously, plays the starring role of Rubber Duck, a laconic, independent trucker who leads a convoy of fellow drivers on an endless protest trek across the American Southwest. He is a typical Peckinpah hero, a macho embodiment of oldtime frontier values. Early on he hitches up with a Peckinpah heroine - a bitchy, citified photographer who is hungry for a Real Man. For some reason, Ali MacGraw has emerged from unofficial retirement to play this demeaning role. Peckinpah shows his gratitude by shooting her synthetic facial expressions in humiliating closeup...