Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goal of such an exam boycott would be to attack the system of exams and grades which comprises the present academic structure. This would be done because the academic system here does not serve our interests as students and as people, but is in fact opposed to those interests. The reasons why this is so are rather complex, and require some explanation...
Partly it is opportunism. Kim understands what might be called "Small-Power Power." Minor countries can now act recklessly toward each other or major nations because, given the nuclear stalemate, the superpowers do not dare retaliate violently lest they set off a general holocaust. Thus Kim II Sung dared attack the U.S., and there is evidence that he also defied Russia-which does not desire a new Korean war any more than does Washington. For all their power, the U.S. and Russia found it difficult if not impossible to restrain...
...have launched no major ground operations in Cambodia and Laos. Their activities, except for aerial bombardment in Laos, are essentially confined to small, mixed U.S.-South Vietnamese patrols that steal across the border to pinpoint Communist concentrations. In Laos, such reconnoitered targets usually come under quick air attack; U.S. bombers fly about 300 sorties a day into that country with the tacit approval of neutralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma...
...Story was workman's compensation for losing the year before in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Rod Steiger's was actually for The Pawnbroker instead of In the Heat of the Night, as announced. Walter Matthau's Oscar came, he admits, "because I had a heart attack. They hate to give you anything when you're dead...
Jack Purdy, who led last year's Harvard attack against Cornell with a 3 and 2 victory, will be leading the attack again this year from the number one position. Captain Bruce LoPucki, who usually plays that position, said that he wanted to give other members of the team a chance to play number one. "Besides, Purdy is really hot now," LoPucki said...