Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine with me if Adam stays out of Washington, because then we're not going to pay our taxes. No taxation without representation." But one Harlem Democrat saw Adam's vacuum differently: "He's been away from the people too long. He should come back and fight like a man. There are plenty of other good men around...
Novel Harassment. The Air Cav's quick reflexes are still always ready to respond to major ground action when heliborne muscle is needed, or to tangle with any main-force units that dare come out and fight in Binh Dinh. Since few any longer do, the division is using its airpower to harass the Viet Cong in other novel ways. One is Operation Snatch, which is employed whenever a roving Air Cav chopper spots a suspiciously large group of people in the countryside. The Cavalrymen immediately dive down to pick up a few suspects for questioning, a tactic that...
Sachar's intense concern about every detail of the university's development has been resented by some restive students and professors, who regard him as an academic dictator. Sachar, who has never been known to walk away from a fight, blandly dismisses such criticism as "the chastisements of love." An academic presidency, he says, "is not a popularity contest-I believe in strength in governing a university." In the opinion of his peers, Sachar has not only been strong himself but has also provided most of the strength of Brandeis...
There are ways to fight back, of course, and Westin discusses several, including the development of anti-bugging devices (which is lagging) and executive action (which has been led by President Johnson's restrictions on wire tapping in all federal agencies). The most progress probably has been made in the courts. Though Westin accurately predicts a landmark Supreme Court decision, the book was already on the presses when the court struck down the New York eavesdropping law and barred electronic bugging in all but the most narrowly described circumstances (TIME,June...
Representative Michael S. Dukakis (D-Brookline), whose auto insurance plan was defeated in the Senate two weeks ago, has not given up his fight to reform Massachusetts' automobile insurance system...