Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...followers engineered the defeat of Krishna Menon's bid for re-election to Parliament. Since that time, Thackeray has fought hard to obtain a better break for the natives of Maharashtra State, of which Bombay is the capital; in particular, he worked to get more white-collar jobs for them, charging that outsiders from the neighboring states of Mysore and Kerala hold a disproportionate number of these eagerly sought posts in Bombay. His war cry is "Maharashtra for the Maharashtrians," and he has been pressing the Indian government for several months for a resolution of Maharashtra State...
...lost in the perpetual scurry of white...
...sexual desire may continue for years after menopause. In men, the desire may thrive until an extraordinary age. In 1583, an Englishman named Thomas Parr was found guilty of committing adultery at the age of 100 and did penance, according to the custom of the time, by wearing a white sheet at the door of the church. Legend has it that Parr remarried at the age of 120 and had children by his second wife. Teb Sharmat, a lively farmer in the Caucasus, took a third wife-who was 50-when he was in his 90s. He explained that...
...week of the spring semester on many campuses, and students responded to the symbolic change of seasons by provoking a spate of violent clashes with authorities. Almost everywhere, the "confrontations," as the students like to call them, were precipitated by the now familiar demands of black students and their white sympathizers. They were asking for segregated student facilities, more courses in black culture, more black students and teachers, and a greater voice in the hiring and firing of faculty. Even where efforts are being made to meet their demands, they are still unsatisfied. In some cases, uncompromising campus militants seem...
...them, led by members of Students for a Democratic Society, staged a "grovel-in" in the driveway of University President David D. Henry's house and read off a list of grievances including an appeal for more black students and a condemnation of the school's "white racist" policies. The students also tried to tie up telephone lines to administrative offices and to book appointments with campus officials in an effort to keep them too busy to perform their jobs. Nonetheless, Illinois was able to hold classes on schedule. - At Roosevelt University in Chicago, black students dramatized...