Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest, which involved over two thousand students in a massive Administration building sit-in, ended after three days of round-the-clock negotiations between the protest steering committee and Administration officials. The sit-in was brought to a close when Administration officials granted two of the four steering committee demands and promised "immediate negotiations to resolve other problems...
...bored thousands who sit in their plush offices, protected by a benefit program that only an affluent society looking for tax advantages could imagine, your Second Acts Essay [March 8] is exciting and challenging. Cutting the umbilical cord to the big mother corporation is hard, but in most cases, it does open up a whole new life. After 18 years with a fine company, I have made the change. Your article is reassuring...
...Smith, Columbia, Barnard and such lesser-known institutions as Dunbarton, Belknap and Rivier-though some of his supporters arrived by Greyhound or jalopy from points as distant as Duke and the University of Michigan. All were soberly antiwar and anti-L.B.J. Many had demonstrated against the war at sit-ins or last October's Pentagon march, but even those happenings were, in the end, frustrating. "It looked more and more as if the physical types of protest-picketing and marching and all that-were having no effect except as an emotional outlet," said Jon Barbieri, 23, a Connecticut...
...target was the 22-judge Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan and is the busiest federal court in the U.S. His solution was pragmatic and to the point. He assigned eleven federal judges from areas as far-flung as California and Tennessee to sit temporarily in New York. Each of the eleven visitors, whose own home courts are relatively up to date, will hear civil jury cases in New York for a month; the whole program will continue for at least two months in an effort to reduce the waiting period for civil cases, which...
WAHINGTON, March 21--More than 1000 students at predominantly Negro Howard University continued their sit-in today, occupying the administration building for the third day in a row. University officials closed the school yesterday and are seeking a federal injunction to remove the protesting students as tresspassers...