Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centuries, countless thinkers have denounced patriotic pride for one of its unhappiest effects: the irrational hatred that one people aims at a "lesser" people. Arnold Toynbee attributes the death of Greco-Roman civilization to patriotic wars between city states-and failure to establish international law. Early Christians rejected patriotism on the ground that man's obligations are to God, and after that to all of humanity. A Jesuit general once called patriotism "the most certain death of Christian love." There is no question that chauvinism-hyperpatriotism-can be induced in any country, including a democracy, where truth...
...Board examined closely the wording of the petition and found it inadequate of itself to establish presence. After considerable discussion, however, the Board did accept my judgment as establishing a reasonable certainty of presence, and voted to place the men involved on probation...
...petition signed by those men which stated their belief that they shared responsibility for obstructing Mr. Leavitt. I also pointed out that one signer of the petition had offered to submit photographic evidence of his presence and that he had claimed access to photographs which others could use to establish presence. On examining the list of names which I had submitted, a member of the Board recalled that he had seen one of the men in the corridor...
...called LSD murder trial, former Medical Student Stephen Kessler was accused of having stabbed his mother-in-law 105 times. Kessler was asked to leave Downstate Medical School in 1964 because his behavior was noted to be unstable. He has admitted that he used LSD in an attempt to establish that schizophrenia has chemical origins, but in the process, he took a couple of bad trips. In one, "a chair appeared to turn into blood"; after another, he had to be hospitalized for five days, and he remembered nothing of what had happened. Though he did not claim...
B.M.C., which claims that the Japanese cars are poorly trimmed and underpowered, has fought Honda's efforts to establish a dealership network. Says Lester Suffield, B.M.C.'s deputy managing director in charge of sales: "Of course we are getting tough. It has taken us 50 years to build up our sales network, and we don't intend to give one inch on this vital issue." Especially grating is the fact that the little Japanese cars coming into Britain pay a 22% duty, while mini-size cars entering Japan...