Word: sit-down
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...some 70 localities, demonstrators marched through the streets, staged sit-down strikes, even overturned a locomotive and tore up tracks on the main line from Warsaw to the west. The most violent outbreak occurred in Radom, a factory town of 180,000 in central Poland, where at least 75 policemen as well as hundreds of workers were injured and the Communist Party headquarters was set afire...
...live in the houses at 3 Sacramento St. and 1705 Mass. Ave. share all the duties and benefits of cooperative living. Everyone devotes a few hours each week to cleaning a part of the house and preparing or clearing breakfast and dinner, which are served as sit-down meals. Lunchtime means scrounging for free leftovers in the kitchen...
...personal, emotional, grieving scenes are by far the best and their impact is severely cut back by the long repetitious interviews with political figures. But if the total length is a bit much, it is almost saved by the perfect rhythm and timing of the cutting. Newsreel footage and sit-down interviews are brought together with only a minimum of clashing, and juxtapositions (Bernadette Devlin on the beach at Port Rush and speaking to a crowd of angry Republicans, for instance), are extraordinary...
...first two, military police were called upon to break up widespread brawls, eventually arresting dozens of blacks. The dramatic third incident, the most significant though least violent, took place on the flight deck of the carrier Constellation. Charging "calculated racism," 120 black sailors and 12 white shipmates staged a sit-down strike in an effort to confront ship commander J.D. Ward. Ward, a member of the old school of navy discipline, refused even to speak with them. Instead, he called a general muster of all hands, surrounding the demonstrators with thousands of white sailors...
...couldn't stop. I got to singing the Notro Dame fight song and right in the middle of maitre Jacques I got up and started that famous Notre Dame marching step on top of the tables. I marched from patron to patron, took a right onto the sit-down bar, leaped over to the bandstand and did a rendition of "Yes Sir, That's say (Hoosier) Baby. Everybody really dug it." The performance, which won him an invitation to Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour and an honorary membership to the Adams House Folklore Colloquium, was panned back...