Word: curtailer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short-term military success that helped ensure that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from South Viet Nam on schedule, or possibly even faster. The only dissenter was New Hampshire Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre, a Democrat, who said that the action had "widened the war" and might prolong rather than curtail U.S. involvement...
...beginning of the Summer term in 1942, the end of the class's freshman year, President Conant delivered a speech to students in which he said, "Class privilege destroys our frontier heritage. We must curtail hereditary privilege and extend the doctrines of equal opportunity. We must reverse the trend of the past 50 years and restore a high degree of social mobility in the country." In 1941 Conant had written an article for Atlantic Monthly in which he made several proposals for reform of American society in order to justify the loss of young men's lives in the upcoming...
...Class of 1945 gift. (The class's original goal was $900,000, It has since been reduced.) Goodman wanted to propose giving part of it to struggling black colleges in the South "whose faculty are being stolen by Harvard and others to create their own facades, to try to curtail this endless, endless hoarding of money by Harvard when so many other colleges are dying for the lack of only a little." Goodman chose Storer to deal with because, he says, "he's the most humane one in the tight cabal that runs the class-the only one who bothered...
...other solution is for the CRR to refuse to entertain charges against most of the obstructive demonstrations unless there are instances of physical injury. Such a policy would, of course, require much more use of student opinion to curtail demonstrations. When one CRR member heard this suggestion, his main concern was "Why nothing would be done if someone tried obstructing my classes...
...class wear suits and ties to commencement and donate their $8 cap-and-gown fees to a fund for the benefit of antiwar candidates. A group called Action for Peace collected 60,000 signatures in the New York City area in two days to support a Senate amendment to curtail the Indochina war; the group began mailing petitions to high schools and colleges across the country for more signatures. Williams College students began organizing "Pause for Peace," a national work stoppage set for May 27 between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Williams students are asking alumni to spread the protest...