Word: ruckuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruckus the family raises may actually change' the Philippine government's policies, according to specialists in the field...
...What a ruckus the women raised, despite the ideal of demure silence! In 1643, in the midst of civil war, as many as 6,000 women marched on Parliament "to cry for Peace, which was to the women a pleasing thing." Off and on throughout the century, dairymaids would form an "Amazonian" mob to protest against enclosure of the land where their cattle grazed. The militants armed themselves with scythes and pitchforks, and on one occasion threatened to burn the houses, drown the servants and cut off the head of one of their oppressors, a certain Captain Thomas Lovell...
...Phillips Brooks House, instrumental music, interest and academic clubs; affiliate--the drama club, political groups. The Crimson, Friend of member--the Outing Club. House musical and theatrical groups No women--the Lampoon, the private clubs, and, I believe, the Advocate, which, however, would publish Radcliffe writing. There was a ruckus my sophomore year over admitting girls to full-membership in the Dramatic Club Full membership was turned down (the movement was led by boys and girls), despite the talented and committed group of girls in the productions. We had very high standards and were critical of slip-shod effort...
Lost in the ruckus was Lamm's original intent: to call attention to the alarming fact that "medical science is replacing God in deciding when we die," and to encourage discussion of the implications. "We can prolong our lives a few months or a year, but at what price?" Lamm asks. The Governor insists that he did not intend to endorse mercy killing: "In euthanasia, somebody else makes the decision. [ am merely saying people have the right :o die without medical science intervenng." In addition, he notes, the "falling leaves" metaphor was an attempt to paraphrase an article...
...verdicts were handed down against two of the defendants, Daniel Silva, 27, and Joseph Vieira, 28. Local news organizations-many of which have assigned women to cover the trial-have kept their reportage generally restrained. But an interview with Defendant Victor Raposo in the Boston Herald has caused a ruckus in and out of court. When Reporter John Impemba questioned Raposo for three hours last August, he worked for the Standard-Times in New Bedford, which declined to publish the story. In February, Impemba was hired by the Herald, and within a week the story was splashed on Page...