Word: cheapen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentration camp" at Kennedy Stadium, but people who were said it was pretty brutal. Yet to call it a concentration camps is to evoke Dachau and Auschwitz, but the government is not yet there, and to evoke images as if it were is to cheapen language, to cry "wolf." And the left should let the destruction of sense in language remain with Nixon; let him call fighting a war "ensuring the peace" and an invasion an "incursion" and let us say what we mean so plainly and truthfully that people will know the difference...
...Those against the motion, however, answered that it was not possible for students to do effective organizing within the 14-day period suggested by the proposals. They said that any rescheduling would "cheapen" Harvard's academic standards and force the Faculty into a partisan political stand as well...
...Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, argued that this "would cheapen the anti-war movement. We shouldn't ask anybody to have pity on us because we're against...