Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relentless as the cherry blossoms, 2,528 Daughters of the American Revolution burst upon the Potomac for their 70th annual séance. With nary a dissent, the Continental Congress passed resolutions condemning federal grants-in-aid, "demoralization in the entertainment world," and the issuance of postage stamps commemorating foreigners. In other actions, the Founding Mothers endorsed the Monroe Doctrine, engaged in a minor skirmish when a lone maverick opposed censure of the Peace Corps. Summarily shutting off the debate ("You've had your two minutes"), D.A.R. President General, Mrs. Ashmead White, gaveled through a resolution to keep...
From some of Protestantism's younger leaders, Dr. Bonnell's thesis evoked a raven chorus of dissent. Commented San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike: "The positive factors listed by Dr. Bonnell are valid, but as a group they don't add up to enough. They are happening, and without them we'd be further behind. But we are losing ground-we aren't even keeping up with population growth...
University students showed "some stirrings of skepticism and dissent'' in the 1950s. but Khrushchev has taken tough measures to keep the stirrings from getting out of control. In 1959 a rule went into effect that students had to put in two years' labor in a factory or on a collective farm in order to qualify for admission to a university. In practice, this requirement is pretty much waived for students of natural sciences, engineering and medicine, but enforced for those who want to study in the "ideologically sensitive" fields of history, social sciences, law and journalism...
...news conference last week, the first Roman Catholic President of the U.S. said: "There isn't any room for debate on that subject. It is prohibited by the Constitution, and the Supreme Court has made that very clear."-At that very moment, a strong, if predictable, dissent was brewing across town in a quiet meeting of the highest prelates of the U.S. Catholic Church. Sitting as the top board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference were all five U.S. cardinals plus eight bishops and archbishops. Subject: a "Catholic position" on the Kennedy school-aid bill...
...counter-demonstrators' whose read, "Abolish the Un-Ameri- Activities Committee," lay just to a venerable tradition of rican dissent. Their rivals in attan Center upheld a different age. They called themselves ng Americans for Freedom," their posters honored Senator y Goldwater, who would key- their meeting. Their ideology with in a some kind of God, in al rights, and in classical ecocs, combined with nationalist ments -- is familiar indeed: egacy of Jefferson, of Hoover, aft. . . and a bit of McCarthy. The generally thinks of their as "conservative," yet in a the Young Americans For dom are radicals. For they...