Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Nixon said the incident should remind everyone that "when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy...
...entire academic community to use this opportunity to go to the people and to bring home to the entire nation the meaning of the President's action. A massive, unprecedented display of dissent is required...
Miss Littlefield and Mr. Brooks are free to disagree with this reasoning and to make their dissent and their constructive views heard. For them to urge, however, a boycott of the examination on the grounds that many students have been exempted from parts or all of the exam for "arbitrary" reasons seems to be a rather arbitrary exercise of the right to express negative views...
Undoubtedly the dissent is receiving new publicity since the confrontation between the government and Dr. Nahun Goldmann, who was allegedly contacted by Nasser to hold talks, which the government refused because of Goldmann's political views. This event will tend to polarize and will undoubtedly force the government to publicly justify-if not modify-its policy. But there is no way to insure that this will happen...
Clark pleaded for a halt to dissent that might impede our effort in Vietnam. "We shouldn't present General Abrams with problems here; he's got enough there." Clark suggested that everyone write Abrams a note that night to tell him that we were behind him. "He deserves all the help we can give him, and he doesn't deserve proclamations from the State of Massachusetts stating that Massachusetts boys won't fight!!" They went crazy when he said that. It took backbone to say it, and the people appreciated backbone...