Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characteristically, he tried to control a smile. Most of the volunteers had forced their way into the press room, where he was to make his first statement. The room was crowded, hot. The crowd became jubilant. We were still two points ahead of Branigin. "I am not here to dismiss the troops," the Senator began...
...students and the elders have some other lessons to be learned. What is needed most of all is more mutual respect. The student activists are more critical than constructive. They often have no immediate, practical answers for the problems that they expose-but older people should not lightly dismiss them for that. Sometimes it is enough just to ask the right questions. Student protests have stirred authorities in Spain, Germany and other countries to some fitful steps toward modernization. And students have begun to move U.S. universities in some desirable directions-toward a more involved role in the local community...
Federal Judge Francis J. W. Ford yesterday set the trial date and at the same time denied defense motions to dismiss the indictments against the five...
EVEN with the legality of the war set aside, the Spock case seems certain to raise fundamental questions of free speech and the limits of dissent. Last week's hearings, in theory, dealt only with several defense motions to dismiss the indictment as too vague, or to force the government to reveal more facts about its charges of conspiracy. In arguing the motions, however, the five's lawyers rehearsed a powerful defense based on the First Amendment's guarantees of free speech...
Leaders of the Draft Union dismiss these hopes as foolish. They cite the recent callup of 60,000 reservists, the continued bombing 225 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone, and the President's refusal to accept Hanoi's proposed sites for peace talks. But whether or not the chance for peace is real, it has drawn people away from the Draft Union. Recent meetings have been badly attended, and most of those coming are the familiar SDS faces...