Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More recently, there have been a number of student demonstrations protesting alleged inequities in the draft. Students at the University of Chicago this week ended a sit-in against the draft, and yesterday more than 250 students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison continued a sit-in for the third...
...Massachusetts secretary of state, Brooke twice won election as attorney general against weak opposition. In the current race for the Senate, with polls giving him as much as a 55 per cent majority over Democratic hopefuls John Collins and Endicott Peabody, Brooke will again be content to sit safely on his consensus policies, successful public record, and personal image. "With my law background, I believe in thinking issues out through research and then publishing a statement, rather than jumping into debate," explains Brooke, who would risk his clear lead by discussing specific issues...
...self-perpetuating nature of the group has made it more cliqueish than before and more prone to accept the applications of other old Loeb hands. If a director has put on a play in the Loeb Experimental Theatre, someone on the committee, or one of the Faculty advisers who sit with them is likely to have seen it. If he has acted in Loeb shows and directed elsewhere, his Loeb friends will probably have seen his shows. But if he has no connections at the Loeb, he is far less likely to be chosen. Thus Robert Ginn, who has acted...
...sit-out is part of a growing movement protesting the RGA Social Rules Committee's recommended changes and its authority to regulate Cliffies social lives at all. The Cliffies will fall to sign out and sit in the Quad from 10 or 11 p.m. on into the night...
Convexities sit generally in the air balanced among hills...