Word: cower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue," she said. "What is new is our numbers, our strength, our rage, and our refusal to cower at the accusation, prude...
Armed with shotguns, Magnums, carbines and clubs, teams of men sweep the streets, enforcing a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for everyone under 18. Citizens cower behind the barricaded doors of their own homes, listening to the shots and shouts that punctuate the night air. The city is not Beirut or Belfast but Detroit, whose agonies are every bit as real and whose conflicts seem equally impossible to eradicate...
DEAR GOD, MAKE ME COWER SO THAT I CAN GET INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE. So proclaimed banners carried through the streets of Bonn last week by some of the 15,000 long-haired, jeans-clad students who had poured into the capital for a peaceful protest against a variety of university and government measures. The target of those particular banners was a four-year-old government decree aimed at keeping potential subversives out of public service jobs. Universally known as the Radikalenerlass (radicals' decree), its tough guidelines have actually barred a mere 428 job applicants out of a total...
Publicly, Ford at first remained adamant against curtailing his freewheeling travel and politicking. His voice husky after his scare in San Francisco, Ford declared on returning to the White House that he did not intend "to cower in the face of a limited number of people ?out of 214 million Americans?who want to take the law into their own hands. We're going to stand tall and strong in this confrontation with people who don't represent...
...belief that both the courts and the press have been overreacting to the Sheppard decision since it came down in 1966. I have seen trial judges issue gag orders when they, because of their own harsh conduct, have been the chief beneficiaries. I have seen seasoned journalists cower in the face of oppressive orders and then insist on their right to print a defendant's criminal record the night before jury selection begins...