Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy-sponsored rights bill, advised him not to risk his still uncertain prestige by pushing too hard for it. For a long moment, Johnson was silent, but then he asked: "What's the presidency for?" Obviously, to command. With his determined driving, the Senate overrode the hard core of Southern Democrats with whom Lyndon had often voted in the past, and on July 2 the President signed into law the most sweeping civil rights bill since Reconstruction...
...Goldwater agrees, the national chairman must have this broad support-not unanimity, but a majority of one is not enough." Ike's version: "We all agreed that there has to be some clearing away of the underbrush to make it possible through a democratic process to widen the core of the party and of the leadership...
...direct collision course that threatens to wreck NATO. The ostensible object of the trouble is the U.S. proposal to create a multilateral nuclear force of 25 Polaris-missile surface ships-although MLF does not even formally appear on the ministerial agenda. In fact, the malaise goes to the very core of Atlantic relationships, and how they have changed since the vision was born...
...matters under the pressure of riots, occupation of building, strikes, ultimatums, and the rest of the tactics perfected in revolutionary situations and introduced for the first time in the United States into a university context; (4) that the injection of foreign elements into the dispute -- viz., the Teamsters' Union, CORE -- has aggravated the difficulty and represents a serious breach in the jealously protected autonomy of the University from outside or sectarian influences; (5) that the force and outside pressure in this case may well set a precedent for similar action to far more dubious ends; (6) that in short...
Much of the current discussion rests on two inconsistent assumptions. (1)Entering students are more mature and better prepared than they used to be (I agree.) (2). Once here they will slide through gut distribution courses, unless confronted with a fairly rigid core of general education requirements. (I don't believe...