Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scores of protesting Cliffies are expected to join in a massive sit-out in the Thursday night, if the Radcliffe Government Association legislature adopts proposals for new sign-out rules afternoon...
...Club Little Island and the Central Cafe-the girls charge $20 to $100 and work in shifts to avoid occupational fatigue. Outside, Negro boys, few older than ten, lead the way to Adams and Jefferson Streets, just around the corner, where their sisters stand in the doorways or sit by the windows-waving, winking, blowing kisses and tapping on the windows at potential Johns. At the sleazier local hotels, the guests all seem to be named "Mr. and Mrs. Smith...
Overreliance on confessions has troubled common-law countries ever since the rise of police forces in the mid-19th century. The drafters of the 1872 India Evidence Act put the problem succinctly: "It is far pleasanter to sit comfortably in the shade rubbing pepper into a poor devil's eyes than to go about in the sun hunting up evidence." Under the Evidence Act, all Indian confessions are inadmissible unless made "in the immediate presence of a magistrate" who has first warned the accused that he need not speak and that anything he does say may be held against...
...many other fields. Last week it bought the Institute of Computer Management, a school for computer programmers-of which Litton needs a considerable number. It is also examining 40 to 50 vastly varied firms, including Wilson Marine Transit and other Great Lakes shipping lines. Says Thornton: "We never sit still-before or after a merger...
...difficult position of having to promote integration and afford students as much liberty as possible at the same time. The problem was illustrated last year, Epps says, when a number of Freshman Negroes were told by their proctor that they shouldn't be so cliquish and sit at the same table at the Freshman Union. It is in precisely this kind of situation, Epps contends, that students must be left alone...