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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even though his bill to end the war is innovative and admirable, it will lose. And were it to pass both Houses of Congress, we all know Nixon would veto it. The bill is meant to be a forceful gesture, rather than a concrete action-but that fact is the basic problem with the whole system Goodell is working in. The best a man with good intentions can do is make a forceful gesture. If he is lucky, an important bill he has introduced may pass. But then the President must approve it, and a presidential appointed must enforce...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Goodell: A Freshman Senator Bucking the Party Line | 10/14/1969 | See Source »

...postcards read: "Mr. Nixon: Forty thousand Americans are dead, and how many Vietnamese? Yet we spend $100 million a day killing even more. Bring our men and dollars back home so we can fight the real enemies-disease and human misery. Get us out within six months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med Schools Protest War, Mail Postcards to Nixon | 10/14/1969 | See Source »

...unreal. The unusual sells newspapers, and often, if there is nothing unusual to report a newspaper will either deliberately or unconsciously invent a story. Boston newspapers had invented the circumstances that will affect Champi for the rest of his life and indirectly, they created them before he had even suited up for the Yale game...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 10/14/1969 | See Source »

...this is how you feel, do take the trouble to come to a few School Committee meetings and to read some of last year's issues of the Cambridge Chronicle, or even of the current ones. Radical improvements CAN be made in the Cambridge Schools if FOUR, not three, innovative candidates are elected to the School Committee. (There are four such candidates...

Author: By R. Metzger, | Title: SAVE THE SCHOOLS | 10/14/1969 | See Source »

...express the clear intent of Congress that all American military personnel be withdrawn from Vietnam on or before December 1, 1970; so that the retention even of non-combat military training personnel in Vietnam after that date would not be permitted without the enactment by Congress of further legislation specifically approving such retention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bill to End the War | 10/14/1969 | See Source »

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