Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect the tiny state of Israel to ward off the combined attack of 20 Arab states, the Soviet Union and her satellites without the Bomb is like having had David tackle an army of Goliaths without the slingshot...
City Council President Louise Day Hicks, a fiery busing opponent, blamed the court ruling for Boston's continuing unease. Virginia Sheehy, activist busing foe, accused blacks of inciting the vengeful mood that led to the attack on Poleet. Black State Representative Melvin King condemned Poleet's beating and issued a warning: "Boston is in danger of becoming a city of random, uncontrollable violence...
...this way the Socialists have sought moderate and conservative votes--and despite their drop over last year's election, the parliamentary voting saw them remain the largest single political force in the nation, with 35 per cent. But the result of this electoral policy is to legitimate the rightist attack on socialism, which is put in terms of supporting a "free" alternative to Stalinist domination. Caught between moves toward socialism and reaction, between a left and a right which imply coherent but opposite courses for the future, the Socialists can gain votes but never rule alone. Soares' party must cease...
...Grade inflation" is a fashionable topic of academic conversation these days. The term means different things to different people. To some professors it symbolizes a general tendency toward permissiveness and lax standards throughout the university. Others use the phrase to attack ungraded courses and the pass-fail system. But most teachers agitated over "grade inflation" are troubled that too many undergraduate students are receiving high grades in their courses. If good grades are easy to achieve, they feel, students will work little and learn less. As a result, the value of an undergraduate degree, even from an institution like Harvard...
...Sociobiology mounts an attack on the integrity of culture as a thing-in-itself, as a distinctive and symbolic human creation; it offers a biological determinism of human interactions," he said...