Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Controversial. The bitter Haynsworth fight has also further politicized a court that in recent years has become increasingly controversial. Although the original furor over Haynsworth arose on ethical grounds, there were many Senators whose objections were based more on ideological grounds; indeed, the Senate vote split primarily along liberal-conservative lines...
Leading the fight for a more general request, Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., argued that asking for a specific bill would "lock in" the incoming City Council, which could only accept or reject the one bill...
Joel and David and I spent the night on the floor of an apartment of a friend of a friend. Joel and David had just come from Dupont Circle. The place was hardly worth fighting over, they complained, little more than a glorified traffic circle. And as for tactics, the leaders of the march had just kept dragging the crowd back into the middle of the circle, and then they would all be gassed out, and then they would just drag them back again. Hell, that was no way to street-fight...
...real self-test had been denied. The march was too bland, the cops were too friendly, and a real confrontation had never come off. For all our romanticizing, the gas had precluded all possibilities of confrontation. How do you fight an element? The use of gas masks makes cops disguise themselves, it denies demonstrators the use of their only weapons, their bodies. Gas had neutralized the situation. So why feel guilty that I hadn't been blinded by it, or that it hadn't made me vomit? Was that the confrontation I had come for? Because...
...presenting these opinions, we are making no attempt to replace the union or act as spokesmen for the workers, as Mrs. Bunting implied. We as students and as women demand an end to this clearly unjustifiable and malechauvinist wage differential, and we will continue to fight for better working conditions in kitchens and dining halls where we work...