Word: strikeingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things that struck me first about the girl and continued to strike me was the lack of sophistication of the things she said and the simultaneous intensity of her conviction. It was obvious, even before she told me, that she had not had much education. The things she said I might have heard before, but not with the same "naive" intensity. The feeling with which she spoke each word overwhelmed my college-conditioned tendency to dismiss without a second thought any ideas expressed poorly or in cliches. I knew nothing about her, but I could tell that whoever and whatever...
...leaders would not say whether the members planned to resign from the University, or how long the strike would last. "It is an open-ended thing," said one OBU member...
...strike officially begins this morning although some black law students left for home last night...
Holy Cross faces a general student strike following the withdrawal of 64 of the college's 66 black students...
Student congress president Thomas Doherty called upon students to boycott classes to protest the suspensions. He claimed that a majority already supported the strike and had begun skipping classes Friday. Other were a bit more guarded. "We'll have to wait until Monday to see if the strike develops," one student said...