Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though a carefully phased redeployment should certainly be tried, I doubt that American opinion will any longer sit still for it. The announcement of the first troop withdrawals made clear that from now on America will regard the war as, at most, a rearguard action...
...administration building at 3:20 a.m., locked themselves inside and vowed to "stop the school" until their demands for a black-studies program and separate black housing were met. At week's end the militants, having mobilized half of Vassar's 59 black students, ended their sit-in, saying they had won tentative agreement to their demands. > Langston University was roiled by the firing of President William H. Hale. About 450 students from the Oklahoma school, a predominantly black public campus, invaded the capitol and shouted "Pig!" at Governor Dewey Bartlett when he refused to explain the dismissal...
...educations. In 1967 only 350 Mexicans were going to U.C.L.A.; now there are a thousand. This can make a revolution. We are demanding Mexican cultural studies in grade schools and high schools, and bilingual education. We are demanding better housing and jobs now. We will fight and picket and sit-in until we get them. And we will have our confrontations with the police, too, and they will be worse than those of the blacks because there are 2,000,000 of us here...
They come from all over the country to Ross Cortese's Leisure World, where they can play tennis and golf and sit by the pool all year round: 7,000 homes, everything they could ever need, and it's all walled...
Over 200 members of the November Action Coalition (NAC) staged an obstructive sit-in outside the M. I. T. administrative offices yesterday afternoon, but left peacefully. The protestors blocked the corridor of the second floor on the main building for nearly four hours, then before breaking up around 5 p. m. to gather for the evening at the M. I. T. student center...