Word: cowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike the cower, says Perry, the buller is close to being "in a strong position to learn content rapidly and meaningfully, and to retain it. I have learned to be less concerned about the education of a student who has come to understand the nature of man's knowledge, even though he has not yet committed himself to hard work, than I am about the education of the student who, after one or two terms at Harvard, is working desperately hard and still believes that collected 'facts' constitute knowledge...
...commuter trains and around office watercoolers, talk turns to shelters. Almost everyone-man, woman and child-has an opinion. Those opinions differ wildly. Many feel that blast and fallout shelters are cowardly. "They would convert our people into a horde of rabbits, scurrying for warrens, where they would cower helplessly while waiting the coming of a conqueror," said Major General John B. Medaris (ret.), former chief of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. Others believe that other moral values are at stake. Said Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath. president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations: "It is the morality...
...There is a respected place in politics for the honest conservative but the languid liberal is of little use. We need progressives who will stand up and fight for a program suited to the needs of a new age. We cannot find them among these who cower before the brew beating of domestic reactionaries. The time of decision is upon us. Either we stand up together, united, or we may lose the opportunity for a political, moral, and spiritual rebirth of American democracy. If this battle is lost at home, It may be lost throughout the world. Either the people...
...rarely does." Civil Defense: "The concept of mass evacuation of high-density population centers and the burial of our citizenry in deep shelters would negate any kind of positive reaction to attack. It would convert our people into a horde of rabbits scurrying for warrens where they would cower helplessly while waiting the coming of a conqueror...