Word: standin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Standin. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., the son of a New York Central conductor, John Dennis Patrick O'Brian showed early signs of an incisive critical taste. Soon after he joined the Buffalo Courier-Express as a cub reporter, O'Brian was assigned to audit a performance of the local philharmonic orchestra. Offended by a guest appearance of some juvenile accordionists, O'Brian took the orchestra so severely to task that the incident became a civic cause celebre. When the orchestra changed hands shortly thereafter, O'Brian, with obvious satisfaction, claimed part of the credit...
...they were impervious even to Radio Free Harlem, over which "Washington, D.C., Rose" seductively urged them to return to the comforts, clean suits and warm apartments of the Privileged People. Harlem's early heroes were the sit-in veterans like Foreign Minister Art Rustram, "who could sit-in, standin, lay-down, and stall-in with the best of them. When it came to a non-violent charge into some governor's office, he led the way. He once out-pacified a Long Island high school principal, single-handed...
District Court Judge Haven Parker '22 heard all the evidence but failed to reach a decision, yesterday, on the seven trespassing cases stemming from a standin demonstration sponsored by Boston CORE in the Harvard Square Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria, on the evening of July...
...Christian Man." Glenn is not permanently disabled, but his condition demands rest-and plenty of it. That is no way to run a senatorial primary campaign, so Glenn has assigned his pretty brunette wife Annie, 43, to act as his standin. Since Annie dislikes making public speeches, and stutters besides, she in turn has enlisted the help of her good friend Rene Carpenter, wife of Astronaut Scott Carpenter...
...Regarding your cover story [Aug. 30] on civil rights, I think it is time somebody stood up for the poor, abused, white bigots. In pressing for their constitutional guarantees, the Negro community has every moral and legal right to sit-in, swim-in, wade-in, waitin, parkin, standin, lie-in and chain-in, but they have gone too far with the pray...