Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protective parental umbrella over Guy began to shred when, at 14, he left Georgetown Day and enrolled at Hawthorne, another progressive private school, located in the now reconstructed slum of Southwest Washington. Though not the first Negro to enter Hawthorne, Guy was the first to stay there, and eventually won a prize for being the best all-round student. Soon, though, he realized that he was a Negro, and some of what that meant. In an annual school forum on race relations, he shocked his white friends by saying: "Whenever I'm in a room with mostly white students...
...street, but 19 sat down. As the officers surrounded the group, one picket stood up and said, "Let's go back to the park." But the police refused to let him get through the circle. Another picket said, "Well, dammit, if they won't let us leave, we'll stay seated." A paddywagon was driven up and the 19 demonstrators were dragged, clubbed, and wrestled--as they groaned and screamed--into the truck...
...approached a policeman and said, "There's a little boy who looks hurt pretty bad lying back there. Can you come back and take a look?" The officer replied, "That's not my responsibility. I have to stay right here." "But aren't you supposed to protect people as well as beat them up?" the man shouted. The policeman replied calmly, "Look, buddy, I am protecting people; now get out of here...
...Suzman spent several weeks in Quincy House earlier this month as the guest of the University. This is the only interview she granted durher stay in the United States...
...turned out, consisted mostly of members of the New Philharmonia, who had trouble following the recipe. Unaccustomed to ad-libbing, they had to be cajoled by John and Paul, who threaded among the musicians, urging them to play at different tempos and to please try not to stay together. Partly as a result of filling that "gap," the Sgt. Pepper album cost three months of work and $56,000 -which is about as much as it costs to record five albums for London's New Philharmonia Orchestra...