Word: chaff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves, the revisions voted Wednesday cannot be faulted: the CEP added some solid college courses to the NROTC requirement as well as sifting some of the chaff from the curriculum. But a reform like this carries the danger that the Faculty will feel spared of reconsidering the larger questions around ROTC. Just as fourth course pass-fail for the moment pushed any wide debate on Harvard's grading system aside, the NROTC revisions threaten to bury the issue of whether ROTC has any place in the Harvard curriculum...
...death scene. It is also caused by the fact that Bonnie and Clyde are what Warren Beatty calls "ordinary people," whose curiously appealing lower-middle-class normality emerges between crimes -Bonnie's perpetual avian bickering with Buck's wife, the Barrow brothers' spirited roughhouse chaff. They kill and rob banks; but they share the common concerns of common...
this Sunday morning, free to chaff...
...many Spartan batteries-backed up by smaller and faster Sprint missiles for short-range interception of ICBMs that penetrate the X-ray curtain-would not provide sufficient protection against a determined and massive attack by the Soviet Union. Using shielding, decoys, multiple and maneuverable warheads and radar-jamming chaff or nuclear explosions, the Russians could confuse and overwhelm U.S. defenses-just as the U.S. could overcome theirs...
BLACK IS BEST, by Jack Olsen. The life and times of Cassius Clay in a sharp-eyed biography that unerringly-and engagingly-separates fact from bigmouth chaff...