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Seizing upon the sycamore about, Harvard and Radcliffe students took up the battle for Memorial Drive in their own way this spring. Nearly a thousand of them paraded down to the riverside, and, in a gay, cheerful mood, blocked traffic for more than an hour by sitting and standing in...
War Against Americans. During the Napoleonic Wars, when both Britain and France were stopping U.S. ships and seizing their cargo, Jefferson clamped an embargo on all foreign trade. His aim was to keep the U.S. from being dragged into war, but he succeeded only in paralyzing the U.S. economy.
"Officials let it be known that they were inclined to doubt the theory that Premier Fidel Castro had provoked them into seizing four Cuban fishing boats to justify a series of actions against the United States naval base at Guantanamo.
Trick Achieved. Though Marshal Sarit ruled Thailand as an absolute dictutor, he had a strong sense of responsibility toward country and people. "Anybody can stage a revolution," he said after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1957. "The trick, once the revolution has been staged, is winning public approval...
The only action Harvard took after seizing the students was to turn them over to Yale with a full report of the incident. Yale declared shortly after the arrest that the six would be responsible for the total cost of removing the paint.