Word: rousting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, though, the market and not OPEC clearly sets the price of world oil. If the cartel tries to roust its rivals by cutting prices, OPEC may set off a downward spiral that it will be powerless to stop...
...school and hung more crosses. After those were removed last week, a number of students showed up in class with large crucifixes hanging from their necks. The following day, two-thirds of the school's 600 students staged a sit-in. After police threatened to use force to roust them, some of the young people sought refuge in the Church of the Transfiguration, where 2,500 students from nearby schools joined them for a morning of prayer in support of the Mietno protesters...
...seems oblivious to the repeated border incidents which the PLO knew would eventually draw the Israelis into Lebanon. Is Timerman so naive, so purblind as to think the PLO hadn't intended to use the Lebanese they had so long terrorized as a spit on which to roust the Israelis in world opinion? It was an option they always knew they...
December 1, 8:33 p.m.--Police arrested Robert P. Mastrangelo of Arlington, Mark S. Roust of Cambridge, and Gary S. Taylor of Cambridge, for trespassing and possession of marijuana. An officer noticed the three men standing at 22 Plympton St. and informed them that the area was private property. The next time the officer passed the address, the men were allegedly still there and smoking "a controlled substance...
...next Faculty meeting, his sensible brethren broadened it to include other "harsh instruments." And in 1969, when students finally got sick enough of the Establishment/liberal hypocrisy that allowed ROTC to stay on campus training bomber pilots, they took over the main administration building. Not only did Harvard officials roust them in a bloody pre-dawn bust, the also battled each other to see who could mouth the most pomposities about "academic freedom" and "free and open scholarly debate." Less than a year later, the Faculty followed their lead, passing the "Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities" and setting up a commission...