Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not be a legislative President but an executive President, exploring those areas where he is sovereign and has to contend least with a Congress controlled by Democrats. A long time ago, he sat in his Wall Street lawyer's office, cramped and yearning, and he said a President should worry first about war and peace. He has not changed, despite the necessities of domestic political dialogue...
...replaced by the all-too-familiar shouts of "Liberate the South!" and "Down with U.S. Imperialism!" During Hisano's two-week stay, he visited a nursery for preschool children in the capital and was astonished to hear them chanting hate-America slogans. Their drawings, pasted on the wall, featured burning American planes and tanks...
...floor of Emerson Hall was a little like that at one of Fidel Castro's Committees for the Defense of the Revolution in Havana. Emerson buzzed with frenetic activity, the intense conversations punctuated by the thunk, thunk, thunk of two hard-working-mimeograph machines. On the wall hung a great poster portrait of Lenin, and stairways were decorated with slogans and placards. One sign read: "A revolution without joy is hardly worth the trouble." Members of "political brigades" churned frantically up and down the stairs, hurrying to and from endless "rap sessions" with students in dining halls and junior...
...being fooled into thinking that they have forced far-reaching concessions from the faculty and administration. Any small breach of precedent at Harvard is taken to be a radical change in the University, and any change at Harvard is seem by some to be a crack in the Ivy Wall that poses an immediate threat to its continued existence...
...curtains covered the rotten section of floor around the toilet in another apartment. The man pulled up the mat to show the splintered piece of plywood which separated the bathroom from the basement. The buzzer system in stalled after Jane Britton was murdered is already falling off the wall. "It's crazy to raise the rent--the place is a dump." He said the kitchen is full of roaches every morning...