Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Governor John A. Volpe had signed a law last May allowing a tenant to sit on the Housing Authority. Before that, no resident of a public housing project had served on the 34-year-old group...
...sophistication and political acumen have made his word law with his committee members and the whole House. President Nixon has called for re-examination of all U.S. tax policy, and Mills will be the congressional arbiter of any changes. Mills, who rarely gives on-the-record interviews, agreed to sit down for an examination of his current views on issues with TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil. Mills' tour of the fiscal horizon...
...watering down its power, to give more attention to the new left, the young radicals who are entering Italian politics. One instance of such attention: election to the party's Central Committee at week's end of university student Fabio Mussi, 21, the youngest person ever to sit with that august group. Finally, the attack on Russian actions in Czechoslovakia was meant to show Italian voters that the party is unfettered by strings from Moscow. On that score, Bologna provided a convincing demonstration that doubtless raised fresh hesitancy in Moscow about the wisdom of convening a summit...
...Liberation School" and held it for ten hours. Their principal desire: a black-studies program similar to those being started at Harvard, Yale and other Northern schools. When university officials finally gave the students one hour to vacate the building or face criminal prosecution, the rebels abandoned their sit-in. But just as it seemed that violence had been avoided by the administration's firmness, a 90-minute brawl erupted between police, the black protesters and 1,000 white student supporters. After tear gas and clubs failed to break up the demonstration, the police departed under a fusillade...
Once inside, the visitors see soaring public spaces as stunning and vast as any Piranesi conceived in his 18th century etchings. Two tremendous lobbies serve as civic areas capable of holding crowds of sit-ins or celebrators. A magnificent ceremonial flight of stairs leads, like a cascade of red Boston brick, from one lobby up to a huge city council chamber and the mayor's offices...