Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light of this most recent Bengali revolution, it is this ugly side of the Bengali nature, this love for firsthand violence, coupled with their feeling toward their government, which makes things look bleak for the future. The only way the nation can feed 300 million people (a population it may well have in a generation or two) is by organizing an effective national development program. But such a program can't be organized because no one trusts the government (with good reason) or wants to work with it. If no one works with it, present inequalities will stay...
Dwight Eisenhower had less trouble with these impulses than any modern President. As one of the world's most renowned soldiers, he did not have to prove anything to himself or anybody else about his courage. He did go to Korea for a firsthand look at that messy war, but for the most part he avoided any public posturing. He did not go to Little Rock and lead black children through angry crowds, as some people wanted him to do in the nation's first school integration crisis. When his advance team ran into protests in Japan...
...wearing a bulletproof vest in St. Louis, reporters there pressed him on the issue of his security. He declined to comment directly on any specific precautionary measures but went on to say quite forcefully that "it is important for the American people to have an opportunity to see firsthand-close up -their President. I feel you have to balance or weigh the risks as to my own personal security against what is a very important aspect of our political life in America...
Loaded Guns. Governor Rhodes testified that he went to the campus mainly to get firsthand information on the disturbances. A former Guard sergeant, Michael Delaney, said that Rhodes had angrily ordered officials in to prevent even as many as two students from walking together on campus. Del Corso and Canterbury said it was the responsibility of troop unit leaders to decide whether guns should be loaded; the unit commanders testified that they had only followed orders from above. The most common defense of the Guardsmen was that students were rushing them just before they retaliated with gunfire. "I felt...
Sections develop case studies by adducing firsthand evidence and primary source research...