Word: breach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some one yelled "Rats!" at the game with Wesleyan Saturday. We have advocated a change to a rational spirit of earnestness in college matters, but we never intended to encourage any one to commit a breach of etiquette, as that outburst unmistakeably was. --Reprinted in its entirety from the CRIMSON...
...time to debate the subject. This is pretty hard to do without sounding like a speaker at a college teach-in. But the G.O.P.sters thought they detected a mild rift between Johnson and Eisenhower in their respective positions on Viet Nam and decided to move into the breach. Naturally, they drafted a "white paper...
Aaent 8¾%. To make a contemporary spy thriller without sneaking in a nod to James Bond would apparently be an unthinkable breach of custom. In Agent 83A, the amenities are ticked off with ease when Robert Morley, as an epicene intelligence chief, routes Bond's records into a file drawer marked "Deceased." That takes care of 007, but leaves 8¾% with only fractional assets...
...danger of permitting the United States to be bogged down in an endless war in Asia, thus leaving the Soviets free to work their machinations in Latin America, in the Mediterranean basin, in Europe, and perhaps elsewhere. Vacuums are tempting-they might be irresistibly so. We are closing the breach in the Communist world. We should minimize our involvement rather than maximize it. No one is suggesting that we duck tail and run. It's a question of priorities...
...student demonstrations-but does have quiet sympathy for student problems. He called the riots "frankly, a very uncongenial way for a university to conduct itself," adding: "The academic man moves more quietly, motivated by reason and the spirit of inquiry. Civil disobedience is really a breach of academic manners." But in an interview at Michigan he also noted: "If procedures and mechanisms for adjusting grievances aren't trusted by students and faculty, we have to improve them. If student groups feel that the only way to get change is to picket the chancellor's house, then something...