Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he continued to stand and address the commission, the guards grabbed him by both arms. As he yelled that he was tired of hearing "half-truths," Agnes was pulled from the row over several other spectators and dragged out of the hearing room...
...impose a regime like they have here today, where people aren't even permited to stand and request permission to speak, I think is a very frightening spectacle," he added...
...East Cambridge neighborhood where First Street is located had little to offer the middle class--unless they were lawyers in court there. The waterfront area was the province of factories, like Borden's candy plant, and stores more like Wool-worth's than Bloomingdales. But Cambridge can't stand to be behind the times. And it's catching up with other cities at a furious pace...
Sitting by the Gate Three escalator and the Au Bon Pain stand that sells mini-Cokes for $2.50, I spread out the classifieds of the Phoenix and the Globe and circled jobs that, first, I could apply for, and second, gave their address; after all, I needed a job today. Realizing how little you are actually qualified to do is the first eye-opener. If you needed work--now--if Mommy and Daddy died abruptly (and--why not--violently), without a will, and Harvard disintegrated into a moldy pile of fellowship applications and GRE pamphlets, who would hire...
...Black men dressed in leather jackets stand outside Harry's Bar. A white man threw a ratty-looking carpet at the pair. "Don't throw that shit on me," one of the Black men retorts. Then, hand in hand, the pair walks down the street...