Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time--and this could include analyzing documents for the Central Intelligence Agency or helping to plan bombing raids into North Vietnam. Except for prohibiting teachers from abusing students, the University places few restrictions on the use of its facilities. In fact, most Faculty members who do classified work would defend their right to do so by invoking "academic freedom...
...rarely allowed to tour outside the Soviet Union by himself, even in other socialist countries, and he must show an internal passport when he travels within his own country. A Russian spends much of his free time standing in queues, where he must push and heave to defend his place. Partly because of boredom, alcoholism is widespread; every park in Moscow has its nightly yield of inert bodies that are dragged off to sobering-up stations...
...University of Iowa, officials called in off-campus police to clear out demonstrators blocking a building where Marine recruiters hoped to hold interviews. The police arrested 108 students, charged them with disturbing the peace. Brown University notified 18 students that they face undisclosed penalties unless they successfully defend themselves in campus hearings against charges of interfering with a CIA recruiter...
...respond in some fashion to the flow of written and oral arguments presented by good students. This situation provides the most significant opening for students who respond critically and negatively to the world about them. If they come to the faculty rigidly and dogmatically prepared to defend radical positions at all costs, they will get nowhere and defeat their own purposes. The consequences of this rigidity are often a tragic waste of essentially fine human materials. On the other hand, if they come in some degree prepared to be convinced as well as to convince, and if they are also...
Filipino sociologists trace the high incidence of political shoot-outs to the islands' rigid feudalistic society. Members of a particular clan feel great loyalty to their leader, and the duty to defend him far outweighs the legal injunction against killing. Though the candidates themselves usually counsel moderation and almost never do any shooting, their followers often feel compelled by a fierce sense of honor to avenge insults-or to ensure their leader's victory by canceling out the other names on the ballot with bullets...