Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over 200 Harvard students seized University Hall. They demanded an end to Harvard's ROTC program--which they claimed directly implicated the University in an immoral war--and an end to uncontrolled University expansion, which uprooted poor Cambridge and Boston residents from their neighborhoods. Later they began to push for the establishment of an Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard, claiming that widespread racism had slowed its appearance. The vast majority of Harvard students supported these demands, if not the group's militant tactics. Several days later, 10,000 students massed in Soldiers Field and voted a general strike...
Because of this belief, Prewitt said he would "push for longer breakfast hours at all Houses...
...social security, a nuclear test ban treaty and improved health care, to mention only a few achievements. Humphrey was the quintessential New Deal liberal and that was important during these years, the years when the government recognized its obligation to expand its responsiveness to human needs. Someone had to push the Senate in new directions, fight the good fight--and more often than not it was Humphrey, a "giver" in the fullest sense, who took it on himself...
...orange plastic ball zips through the air, occasionally caroming off an onlooker or one of the swimmers. Two giggling women start to push a third into the water, then pull her back just in time. It is normal poolside fun, except that everyone is naked and three couples are copulating in the water...
...ethnic neighborhoods in this country; there's nothing wrong with that per se," says Trillo. "In public housing the question is, do you want to give a government subsidy to start a Spanish ghetto (in public housing)--with no bad connotations to the word? Black pressure groups will push for affirmative action in the smaller, more desirable housing projects, but Hispanics are not interested, Trillo says. In fact, the racial integration concept in public housing may be responsible for hostility between blacks and Hispanics...