Word: tocsin
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...Crimson editorialist Andrew D. Fine ’09 likewise sounded the tocsin. Pleading before the UC not to pass their aforementioned resolution, Fine—as paraphrased in The Crimson—deemed it incumbent upon the University to “pressure” the military into ending DADT, and thus imperative to exclude the commissioning ceremony from campus...
Discouraged, Todd A. Gitlin '63, Tocsin chairman, told the demonstrators, "We will have tangible results...
Perjhaps the biggest setback the students was at a special, closed meeting of State officials and top leaders of the C. Goldmark '62, chairman of Tocsin, the conference at State "one of the most experiences of my life. Our reaction of amazement...
...explosive conference ended with Tocsin members "angry, insulted, and shocked...
When French president Jacques Chirac learned on Nov. 15 that a Jewish school had been set ablaze in the Paris suburb of Gagny, he sounded the tocsin. Officials flocked to the scene of the fire, and, 48 hours later, Chirac summoned his closest advisers to the Elysée Palace to brainstorm new ways to fight anti-Semitism. "When one attacks a Jew in France, it's France in its entirety that is attacked," he told reporters. "Anti-Semitism is contrary to all the values of France." Chirac has said that before. But this time, something was different. When...