Word: township
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very day that the country's new constitution went into effect, rioting broke out in several black residential areas outside Johannesburg, the country's largest city. A major site of the trouble was Sharpeville, the township where in 1960 South African police fired machine guns into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators, killing 69 blacks. This time, angry crowds set buildings on fire and threw stones at police in troop carriers, while air force helicopters hovered overhead. After police had moved in with tear gas and attack dogs, they found a scene of death and devastation. Four blacks...
...Memorial Stadium, impishly referred to on fall Saturdays as the third largest Nebraska township (pop. 73,650), a principle has been literally etched in stone: "Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory." The words seem too high-blown to be associated with modern major-college football. Putting aside the moral excesses, just the logistical ones are awesome. And the Nebraska program, like so many others, is overgrown to the point of hilarity, but not to the exclusion of charm. Five years is the common hitch for a Nebraska football player...
...they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed they say the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparkled by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
...teachers in the program adapt the materials and the magazine to their own needs in surprisingly varied ways. American Studies Teacher William Di George of Ewing Township High School, N.J., mounts some 90 TIME covers on his classroom bulletin boards to impart a personal view of current history; for quizzes, he masks the identifications and asks his students to name the subjects and discuss their roles in events. East Hampton, N.Y., Social Studies Teacher Jim Barry has devised a current-events contest in which teams compete for points by answering questions from a given week's issue. Evelyn Robinson...
...they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed, they say, the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparked by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...