Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This strategy, first suggested by the Washington chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, has a certain appeal. Any other measure affecting the D.C. government would require specific Congressional approval; this one requires specific disapproval. A reorganization measure goes into effect automatically 60 days after its submission unless Congress has voted no in the meantime. The mechanism by which Congress vetoes a reorganization measure is either 1) a committee, in response to a motion of disapproval filed by a member of the House, sends a report to the floor within ten days to be voted upon...
...some affinity for anti-war demonstrations and once-illegal trips to Communist nations. And while its star chamber tactics have lost their popularity of the 1950s, they have come to be sadly relevant to many members of the Harvard community--from civil libertarians to members of the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of Students for a Democratic Society...
...Whatever may be the purpose of human life, if any, one thing is clear: that in all past experience, human purpose has had to be worked out primarily within the limited limits of an unbreakable economic equation. That equation was stated in the third chapter of Genesis in terms of a divine command: 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.' And confirmed by the single economic passage in the Lord's Prayer: 'Give us this day our daily bread.' In mid-20th-century America, bread is a drug on the market...
...armed services, you don't need to worry about the necessities of life. . . ." You get it in his description of the good fun in the front lines: "Most of us awoke each morning with a cheerful curiosity about what the day would bring" (this from a chapter happily entitled "All my Friends are Dead"), and the good fun in Saigon: "Saigon also has a happier and more wholesome side. There are schools, orphanages, and hospitals...
...hits you head-on when, home safe, Sadler writes in his last chapter: "The Army as a whole has been a great experience for me . . . When my son, Thor, grows up, I want him to spend some time in the Army. In fact, I'm going to start him on judo and karate by the time he is five...