Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year behind-the-scenes effort by Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, paid off last Tuesday when President Nixon announced his decision to curtail American chemical and bacteriological warfare (CBW) capability...
About 500 students and 36 Faculty members of the Harvard Law School have signed a petition protesting a proposed amendment to the Economic Opportunity Act which would significantly curtail legal aid to the poor...
Although he said that he thought neither Governor Sargent nor any future Massachusetts governor would act to curtail legal services in this state, he said he believed that passage of the amendment would put direct pressure on the governor and indirect pressure on the legal aid services in the state. The amendment would "create an unhealthy climate" for what are supposed to be independent legal services. Ferron said...
...committee conceded that its study came during a period of "unprecedented faculty and student opposition to ROTC. " Three Ivy League schools Harvard, Dartmouth and Columbia have taken steps to curtail or drop ROTC completely...
...Georgia Harris, whose husband had been a Navy pilot, was emotionally blocked until she participated in a 14-hour marathon session. "When I left it," she recalls, "I felt like somebody had just peeled all the skin off my body. Everything was open." No attempt is made to curtail or suppress normal mourning. As they progress, the widows begin to confront the emotionally exhausting problem of rebuilding their social and sexual lives. At first, most are unable to consider remarrying, but they eventually come to see themselves as available single women, although with special memories and, often, children...