Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost every case, effective student insurgents at Harvard have rejected the tactic of mass civil disobedience. Yet the obstructive sit-in in Mallinckrodt two weeks ago, and the Faculty response to the students involved, seem to have provoked a more tortured, mind-bending reappraisal of university policies than Mem Church rallies, student government, and long-winded petitions ever have...
...Best Cut. Today the House of Lords has a membership of 1,045, twice the number in 1911. Its hereditary peers number 865. Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit as lords spiritual, and 154 life peers have been created under the 1958 act. In a title-conscious country, the Lords enjoy high prestige. Their most important perquisite is the right to sit in the elaborately Gothic House of Lords, where everything from special parking spaces out front to toilets marked "Peers" smacks of privilege. And, as Anthony Sampson notes in his Anatomy of Britain Today: "A Lord...
...university campuses. In response to faculty protests, the University of Pennsylvania recently canceled its contracts with the Defense Department to study chemical and biological warfare. The Universities of Pittsburgh and Minnesota are debating similar action; Stanford and N.Y.U. have applied severe restrictions to such work. Last week there were sit-ins and teach-ins at Michigan, protesting military research at the university. At Princeton, students have been bitterly protesting the use of university land for a government-founded Institute for Defense Analyses...
...patter between songs and offered him a walk-on role in his series. Nabors says he was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, but Griffith assured him that "all I had to do was act like one of those fellows down home who sit around the gas pump reading comic books." Shucks, that was easy, and Nabors soon became a regular on the show. Gomer, naturally, was a spinoff. No Belchfire. Though he will make $500,000 this year, Nabors is hardly the type to go Hollywood. His fans like to think...
Ford describes the feelings of impotence and frustration experienced by students who have participated in the anti-war movement to illustrate the mental attitudes which led to the sit...