Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drifting down the rivers from the hills come logs rigged with paper sails that bear Viet Cong propaganda messages to the U.S. Marines. More leaflets are strewn among the American dead on battlefields. All plug the same hard-sell theme: refuse to fight, desert to the Viet Cong. But lately, the Viet Cong are narrowing their sights. In an attempt to ride the upswing of racial disorder in the U.S., they are aiming their psychological offensive at the Negro fighting man. "Black G.I. in the U.S. Army!" exhorts one leaflet. "Twenty million of your fellow countrymen in the U.S.A...
...HYRC set up a Special Committee of Law School Republicans to investigate the elections and to report to the Student Council. In the meantime, Dean Watson denied rumors that outside pressure had been brought to bear on him not to take any formal action against the club. Rumors had been circulating throughout the University that interested undergraduates had sent letters to wealthy Republicans asking that they exert economic pressure on the University's then current fund drive...
...because they have been at Harvard longer than others and have had more time to be socialized by anti-war sentiment rampant on campus. Still, it doesn't sound unreasonable to suggest that vulnerability has something to do with one's political opinions. One particular phenomenon which seems to bear this out is that students have become markedly more radical since they learned that graduate school was not going to be an automatic deferment...
...After a while, you realize that they're playing the game a lot better than you are. That you're becoming though. I don't know how I'll bear...
...sees the government's including one real draft resistor among the five as an attempt "to scare all the other kids." "The government is saying to the kids, 'No matter how many adults you bring in to bear the brunt, we're going to get you too.' I was just an easy, prominent target because of all my public speeches...