Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willful repression of the nation's longest war and its only military defeat. The forgetfulness amounted almost to national amnesia. Two or three years ago, literary agents would tell their writers: "I can sell anything you do, but not about Viet Nam." Except for a foolishly frisky little combat comedy called The Boys in Company C, Hollywood would not touch the war-unless you count John Wayne's 1968 Green Berets, which might as well have been produced by William Westmoreland. As Director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) put it several years ago, "I don't believe...
...strength of Galbraith's book comes from its criticism of current wisdom about mass poverty and U.S. government programs to combat it. He claims that the U.S. government and academics, liberals and conservatives have approached the poverty backwards, once they discovered that the problem existed. Uninterested in poverty relief until 1950, the U.S.'s sudden fascination with the problem at that point stemmed from a smug feeling of post-war cultural and economic supremacy combined with the belief that poverty opened doors for communist take-over...
Pending the outcome of the Navy's official investigation, the Marines have tentatively charged Garwood with desertion, soliciting U.S. combat forces to lay down their arms, and unlawful dealing with the enemy. If he is court-martialed on these charges and convicted, he could be sentenced to death...
...oarswomen maintained an unusually low cadence of under 32 strokes per minute to combat the inclement conditions...
...parties can raise issues and stimulate discussion. This discussion brings forth differences of opinion, leads to alternative proposals, and eventually resolves such differences so students can present a reasoned, united position to the University. These groups help foster student interest in what occurs politically at Harvard; they seek to combat the reigning apathy...