Word: took
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After losing the mayoral election to Kevin White in 1967, Mrs. Hicks took her first step toward a comeback in September by winning the right to compete for one of nine seats on the Boston city council next month...
...black and purple bunting of mourning. Mayor Herman Zogelmann of Wellington, Kans. (pop. 8,391) cooperated with the American Legion post to drape the town in patriotic tricolor. Across the country-in drenching San Francisco rain, in ankle-deep Denver snow, in crisp New York fall sunshine-Americans took part in a unique national Happening...
...Asia, Nixon would perform a better service by preparing the country for the trauma of distasteful reversal?and for the lesson to be learned from it. If he is to heal the wound, he will need unity, not further division. He will need the help of all those who took to the streets last week to try to push him farther along the road out of Viet...
Riverbed Rallies. Last summer, when Park first announced his intention to amend the constitution, there were cries of "dictatorship," and Korea's volatile students took to the streets. Most of them supported the more liberal, urban-oriented New Democratic Party, and they feared that Park and his rural-based Democratic Republican Party were trying to perpetuate their control indefinitely. When Park sought approval from the National Assembly to hold a national referendum, the opposition New Democrats seized the speaker's rostrum in the red-carpeted Assembly chamber and refused to yield it through four days of 24-hour...
Last year, workers and students combined to create the most violent upheaval that France has endured in two decades. The very existence of the Fifth Republic was threatened as unions called crippling strikes and students took to the barricades. Now that most stable element of French society-the small businessman-is beginning to vent his violent discontent. In recent weeks, shopkeepers have paraded through Paris, burned tax forms in Lyon, fought police in Morlaix. In Nice, they refused to pay increased gas and electricity rates. Capitalizing on the discontent, the Communist daily L'Humanite has sided with the petit...