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Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and tried in a period that was shaken by prejudice and distrust. The United States had entered a period of post-war isolationism, and the "Red Raids" ordered by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in 1920 were only the most obvious manifestation of a generally paranoid political climate...
...student-faculty council ways of "getting rid of" he infringed on academic freedom and slandered three colleagues. By first complimenting Hartman on his work as director of the UFS and then turning on him by supporting the non-renewal of his contract, Kilbridge contributed to a growing distrust at the GSD. And, by arbitrarily circumventing the decision of the School's admissions committee in order to attract one man to chair the Planning Department, Kilbridge undercut every tenet of Harvard's academic tradition...
AMERICAN NOTES The Cities Revisited More than three years after the Kerner Commission analyzed the causes of the great urban riots of the 1960s, the racial ghettos of the U.S. are more than ever an environment of decay, distrust and despair. That is the conclusion of a report, "The State of the Cities." issued by a commission of the National Urban Coalition...
Measure of Distrust. The violence quickly escalated. The following night, the popular Tu Do nightclub was blown up with a 15-lb. plastique charge, killing 15 and wounding 57. Though the attack appeared to be the work of Viet Cong terrorists, it was a measure of the distrust in which Thieu is now held that some observers thought that the President might even have engineered that. Their reasoning: any terrorist attack would be blamed on the Viet Cong, thereby strengthening Thieu's anti-Communist stand and silencing such antiwar critics as McGovern...
...revelations may seriously undermine confidence in the use of recently bought antiquities to describe past civilizations. In particular, the forgeries could lead to distrust of current archaeological concepts about ancient Anatolian culture. The Hacilar deposit was uncovered by British Archaeologist James Mellaart after he had been led to the spot by a Turkish farmer in 1956. Mellaart's find reversed the long-held belief that Anatolia, the area that is now Turkey, was only peripheral to the advanced Neolithic culture of Mesopotamia. So great was the wealth of the material found at Hacilar that some historians concluded that Anatolia...