Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second issue of last year's dispute was scheduling conflicts, notably, Quincy's scheduling of Yellow Submarine and the Business School's scheduling of two other films at approximately the time of showings at the Orson Welles. Ex-chairman Miller maintains the schedule had been made in advance and the conflict was accidental. But according to Jackson, "it had come to the point where coincidence became aggressive and led us to believe that certain film societies were looking for the block-busters on our schedules and showing them the day before or after...
...1870s, the government made token attempts to discourage gold seekers while simultaneously pursuing expansionist land policies. When the Indians protested the presence of "white men made crazy by yellow metal," the government's response was another treaty commission. The government wanted the Paha Sapa, but it took Custer's Last Stand...
...beginning of Big Foot Trail, some 45 miles west of Wounded Knee, S.D., a yellow, slightly faded billboard stands frozen against the bleak Dakota horizon. "45 miles to Wounded Knee," the billboard screams. "The historic site and mass grave of the last battle between the Indian and the white...
Wilson, a stocky mixed-blood with close cropped hair, was familiar with AIM's tactics. In March 1972, AIM and 2000 supporters gathered in Gordon, Neb., to protest the violent death of Raymond Yellow Thunder. A splinter group headed to Wounded Knee, determined to use the historic site for a symbolic demonstration...
...security division issued press credentials, which were a copy of an Indian poem printed on yellow paper. The poem had been sold as a souvenir at the museum prior to the takeover. Security officials, armed with guns, checked credentials at the AIM roadblocks, which were located about 100 yards from the center of the village...