Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collective political judgment was in 1773, when they agreed to stop drinking tea in protest against George Ill's tax. While no one at last week's faculty meeting spoke in favor of the war, record numbers of faculty turned out to debate the propriety of taking a formal stand against it. The vote to condemn the war was affirmative, 255 to 81, with 150 abstentions. *Only three days before, a bomb shattered windows and dislodged masonry in New York City's major armed-forces induction center at 39 Whitehall Street. There were no injuries...
Preceding the end of the hour-long vigil, Elmer H. Brown of the Cambridge Friends Meeting asked the crowd to extinguish their candles in the ground and stand for a brief silent vigil. As the smoke rose into the air, Bishop Thomas J. Riley gave the benediction...
...news conference in the Sheraton Plaza, spokesmen for the group said the doctors and students plan to stand on Boston street-corners and ask 185,000 passersby to sign postcards which will be mailed to the White House...
President Nixon has violated his promise to the American people and chosen to pursue the discredited policies of Lyndon Johnson. We must stand together, he tells us to secure an "honorable" peace. In attempts to appease his opponents and buy time for his disastrous policies, the President has announced token troop withdrawals and illusory draft cuts...
...frequent target of anti-war and anti-draft protestors, Hershey was condemned as autocratic, too old for the job, and defiant of legal draft policy. Sen. Eugeue J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) promised during his 1968 presidential campaign to fire Hershey if elected. Nixon refaced to talk such a stand...