Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unfocused organizing activity is its difficulty in prescribing specific political action. Yet Vietnam Summer would meet with greater difficult and the alienation of participants if it had a party line. In any event, the organizers may well be satisfied whether the project fails or not; either they will awaken a previously dormant popular minority against the war, or else they will radicalize the large numbers of moderate students who joined their broad-based coalition...
Knives & Forks. A series of bloody riots in 1954 left seven convicts dead, injured scores of others, and cost $10 million in damage to buildings and equipment-but did little to awaken the state government. In 1964, after 16 months of internal warfare among rival convict factions had killed seven men and hospitalized 205 others, the then Governor, John Dalton, sent in investigators to determine what had gone wrong. Nearly everything had. One day after a legislative committee issued a scathing report on conditions in the penitentiary, the warden shot himself. The state director of corrections left soon after...
...unfocused organizing activity is its difficulty in prescribing specific political action. Yet Vietnam Summer would meet with greater difficulty and the alienation of participants if it had a party line. In any event, the organizers may well be satisfied whether the project fails or not; either they will awaken a previously dormant popular minority against the war, or else they will radicalize the large numbers of moderate students who joined their broad-based coalition...
...Alan Guttmacher, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation, for his efforts to awaken humanity to the awesome problem of overpopulation...
...this up." One by one, the nurses went like lambs to the slaughter. None uttered more than "a little scream," said Corazon. The windows were open, but a second group of nurses who lived next door was on vacation; the victims' muffled cries were not loud enough to awaken other neighbors...