Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are, however, some hopeful signs. Volunteer Defense Corps units, a kind of local militia armed with bolt-action rifles, are taking up posts in remote villages that rarely saw a cop in the past. In a direct copy of efforts in Viet Nam, well-armed People's Assistance Teams (PAT) are giving selected villages a measure of protection and some civic-action aid. Other cadres sound out local needs, gathering intelligence in the process. Nor is the government ignoring propaganda: it has put up posters in the Northeast showing Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh hovering over...
...additional signatures would allow the state's voters in 1968 to direct the Secretary of State to place the question of a Convention on the ballot in 1971. And even then, the voters could reject the idea...
...contemplating the politics of despair has left you a little ill in mind and heart, if you crave a measure of vicarious escape, I do not direct you to the series of fourteen novels Ross MacDonald has written about Los Angeles private detective Lew Archer. That would be a bit too much like presenting a presurgical patient with Gray's Anatomy by way of light reading...
Then Leavitt was informed, "Dow's exact involvement in the war effort amounts to a war crime. That justifies direct action to stop people from working for this company...
...flukey goal. Dartmouth got a 30-foot direct kick on the right side of the field, and the ball was booted straight at the nets. An unidentified Indian jumped high to head the ball, which Breese batted away, but then, Peter Linton saw Breese slip for a second and headed the rebound past him into the corner of the goal...