Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...view, getting the attention she so openly pleads for, was the first of the four defendants to appear before the jury. Susan Denise Atkins, sounding high, embarrassingly theatrical, rolling her eyes and screwing her face as if to focus her mind, held the witness stand like a prize of war for three days...
...controversy over the Treelands-Bindery project which last June provoked the first outside disruption of Commencement in Harvard's history has once again become a focus of University attention...
...Guardsmen were acting on an ideology enunciated by Nixon, Agnew, and Del Corso. The students were the enemy, the American Viet Cong, guilty of the crime of being in the way. The Guardsmen had been given a focus for their anger, given live ammunition, and told to take care of the situation. No one can contend that they shot cold-bloodedly, taking out their anger like the hardhats. Undoubtedly they fired in blind, tired, nervous panic. But the shells had been loaded and the powder primed very carefully in Washington and Columbus...
...drugs, and concluded that "there is no single effect for any drug. If you let me choose the person and the dose, I could produce any effect you name with any drug." Since then, she has lobbied astutely behind the scenes to make researchers, government officials and teachers focus on "people, not chemicals...
...demonstrations called by last weekend's Ann Arbor conference provide such an opportunity. Even more immediately, the People's Peace Treaty provides a focus around which the movement can mobilize the people in repudiating Nixon...