Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over 1000 people who have been arrested, about half of them are from the college. The strike had the active or passive participation of almost everyone in the college, although this was influenced by the cancelling of most class meetings. Many undergraduates who feared arrest supported the sit-ins in petition, and demonstrations...
...Joint Committee on Disciplinary Affairs (consisting of seven faculty members, seven students, and three administrators) is very angry at Kirk for suspending over one hundred students automatically for participating in the last sit-in. His action goes directly against their agreement on their sovereignty in disciplinary action...
...FLOOR of the Cambridge City Council's chambers, there is a massive table where City department heads sit when the Council grills them. Come into the chambers during the Council's meeting on Monday and, likely as not, you'll see Robert E. Rudolph, the Director of Traffic and Parking, sitting behind the table sometime during the afternoon...
During his campaign, Huong indicated that he would be willing to sit down and negotiate with the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front if he were certain that it would assure "genuine peace and freedom" for South Viet Nam. Those sentiments do not endear him to Ky and his followers, who are far more fretful than Thieu about the U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris. Ky, in fact, was off in Nha Trang when Thieu changed Premiers last week, a fact that led Saigon's hyperactive gossip mills to conclude that Ky might decide to plot a coup...
...high school student council in Manhattan, once worked for Democratic Representative William Fitts Ryan, eventually turned to S.D.S. after becoming appalled by congressional support for the Viet Nam war. Lawyer Ron Yank, 26, was a fraternity man at Berkeley, saw what direct action could do when a sit-in won more jobs for Negroes at a San Francisco hotel. Yank joined S.D.S. while attending Harvard Law School, became co-chairman of the local chapter...