Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Representatives, essentially because of its fidelity to "the system," has not been a good one in the last few years, and Quinn is not without pride or ambition. Furthermore, Quinn is a representative from Boston--the Dorchester section--and to injure legislation beneficial to Boston's plight would not sit well with the home-folks. In light of the long-standing awe and respect that exists for doing things "the system" way. White's decision to force passage of the tax bill was, nonetheless, a courageous one. Chalk one up for His Honor...
...CRIMSON poll found a huge anti-war vote at Harvard tends to reenforce the credibility of each of the studies. Further coroboration comes in that both polls found approximately the same percentage of adamant draft resistors. While Marshall discovered that 29.8 per cent of the Harvard students polled endorsed sit-ins, draft card burning, and draft resistance as a legitimate form of anti-war protest, the CRIMSON poll found 22 per cent of the Harvard students would resist the draft by either leaving the country or going to jail if such an act were necessary in order to avoid induction...
...alley" that undermines the U.S. "moral and political" position. Leaders of West Germany's Social Democratic Party urged Washington to end the bombing. Several U.S. Congressmen also called for a bombing pause and immediate negotiations, including Senator Robert Kennedy. "It seems to me we lose nothing if we sit down to negotiate," he said in San Francisco. "If we can't stop the conflict, we can always go back to killing each other...
Driving a Wedge. Indeed, when North Viet Nam wants to sit down at the negotiating table, it can communicate its desire directly to the U.S. within a matter of hours from any number of world capitals. U.S. Ambassador to Burma Henry A. Byroade has been in frequent touch with North Vietnamese officials and could be reached at any time. So, too, could embassy personnel in Moscow, who also have had dealings with the North Vietnamese. Chester Bowles's visit to Pnompenh this week gives the North another opportunity for a high-level contact. If Hanoi does not want...
Ferber thinks they achieved the "only complete victory in the history of the civil rights movement" there. They closed down an elementary school, the city hall, and the town's switchboard through massive sit-ins. "We had the city virtually paralyzed...