Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dartmouth Dean Thaddeus Seymour and the student newspaper, which had invited Wallace, sent formal apologies, and the general feeling around the campus next day was one of sheepish embarrassment. It is impossible to embarrass Wallace. He described the demonstrators as pacifists who "don't want to fight the Viet Cong but sure can fight the police" and, alluding to the car-rocking episode, said the students were "expressing academic freedom-and academic freedom can get you killed...
...brawler. Short, thick-chested, with a graying mass of Brillo for hair, he looks like an aging welter-weight. He throws sentences like punches, clipped, hard, sometimes below the belt--not surprising for a writer who churned out 20,000 words about a one-round Liston-Patterson fight and who has himself gone ten rounds with Jose Torres. Yet when others use boxing metaphors, he winces, demanding a better performance; the image, he implies, is his own thing, and indeed, when he cups his hands, leans forward, and drops one like "Maybe only cowards have problems," the style...
...University has won its legal battle to gain control of a building on the edge of the Kennedy Library site, but the building's tenants say they will fight any attempts to raise their rent or evict them...
Miss Gill -- leader of the fight against Harvard's takeover of the building -- threatened to retaliate with "demonstrations, sit-ins, rent strikes, and Irish confetti (iron skillets)" in case of the following...
...system that will eventually emerge from a Senate-House conference committee will be any better than the old is anyone's guess. Some of the Marshall Commission's ideas are certainly dead; no one, for example, either in the White House or in the Congress, is going to fight for the abolition of 2-S deferments. If the lottery and the elimination of graduate deferments suffer the same fate, then the new Selective Service Act will differ only in detail from its unwieldy and unfair predecessor...