Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demands as turning trustee powers over to faculty and students, got President Robert F. Goheen, 48, to promise "a fresh and searching review of the decision-making process of the university." At the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York, 50 students staged a 17-hour sit-in at the school's business office to express sympathy with the Columbia protesters and to assail the invasion of the campus by police in a drug raid last winter...
...desegregated housing and more lenient grading for graduates of Negro high schools. Most decisive of all in handling protesters was the University of Denver, a Methodist-affiliated school. When 40 undergraduates fighting for the right of M.A. and Ph.D. candidates to belong to the student government held a sit-in at the registrar's office, they were not only arrested but kicked out of school...
...hunt for overseas business, the Commerce Department has been revving up official trade missions. Last week some 40 U.S. executives hustled to Sydney and Melbourne with the help of Pan American to search for orders for everything from automatic controls to waste-disposal systems. "We can't sit on our duffs and wait for this business to come to us," said Chairman John R. Kimberly of papermaking Kimberly-Clark. Such efforts can pay off handsomely. After Illinois-based Ideal Industries Inc., a leading maker of wire strippers and connectors, began exhibiting its products at the Hannover Fair last year...
...back to Math around 4:30 and sit down on the public relations ledge over Broadway. People from the Peace Demonstration are depositing money and food in a bucket at the bottom of a rope. Each time we haul it up and re-lower it we include I.D.'s for people who want to get into the campus. A remarkable number of cars toot their support, and when a bus-driver pulls over to wave to us a victory sign ten people nearly fall off the ledge for ecstasy...
...cops come in. The eight of us sit down on the stairs (which we've made slippery with green soap and water) and lock arms. The big cop says don't make it hard for us or you're gonna get hurt. We do not move. We want to make it clear that the police had to step over more chairs to get our people out. They pull us apart and carry us out, stacking us like cord wood under a tree. The press is here so we are not beaten. As I sit under the tree...