SDS
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- proper noun
- One would not draw a straight line from the Statement to Women's Liberation, but certainly, the New Left, with SDS as its largest organization, contributed to and shaped the emergence of women's rights activism.
- SDS member
Examples
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Wesley and I lived together in Berkeley, and he's the president of the Berkeley chapter of SDS.
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I had unending arguments with the SDS folks in college.
Blog text (21) -
Rennie Davis and Tom Hayden are the leaders of the SDS, Students for a Democratic Society.
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I enrolled at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the headquarters of the Weathermen and the SDS.
Fiction book (2000) -
The standard history of Students for a Democratic Society is Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS (New York: Random House, 1973).
Academic text (1992) -
This administration is paranoid about the SDS, the Mobe, the New Left…
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Jeffrey Miller was previously an active member of SDS and was saluting the troops with his middle fingers when a bullet entered his jaw.
Academic text (2000) -
Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, played a crucial role in the anti-war movement during the 1960s.
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The SDS organized protests that helped raise awareness about civil rights and social issues.
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Many colleges had active chapters of the SDS, where students debated strategies for social change.
Surface Forms
Morphology
SDS = student + democratic + society (opaque) = S + D + S
The proper-name initialism maps to full words but the letters themselves do not transparently yield the organization name to most learners.
Etymology
SDS is the short name for Students for a Democratic Society; students are young people at college, democratic means 'rule by the people', and society means 'a group of people', so SDS was a student group that worked for social and political change in the 1960s.