Word: generall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like Jean Weinburg, executive director of Massachusetts Organization for Repeal of Abortion Laws (MORAL) breathed a sigh of relief. Since the Supreme Court made that ruling, abortion has been a private decision--not a bid idea, since there are a number of moral considerations on the issue and no general consensus. Everyone is entitled to abortions; Medicaid funds have been used to pay for poor women to have this freedom of choice...
...GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS...
...history; at the very least, each period was compared unfavorably to the past. That is a symptom of Americanism that dates to the Jacksonian Era. I do not suggest any of that; even so it is difficult not so sound like (God forbid) Eric Severeid. It is the general, but by no means pervasive, comfort of America today that makes the '70s so inert and dangerous. But every intelligent person clucks over the headlines each day and then forgets them, unless they directly affect him or her. And no one does anything. Despite the claims to the contrary, progress...
Apparently the most popular psy-war technique in Viet Nam was the most traditional-leafleting. General William Westmoreland was said to be so enthusiastic about the printed propaganda that he wrote some of the pieces himself, and in one typical month in 1969, the U.S. dropped 713 million leaflets over Viet Nam. At least a few pilots developed their own distribution system, dropping leaflets in tied bales to get the chore done quickly. Sometimes the system worked. One harried Viet Cong defector told Americans that his will to resist was broken one day by an astonishing incident: an enormous bundle...
When Richard Nixon nominated Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. to the Supreme Court in 1971, on his mind must have been something like General Pickett's exhortation to his troops before their ill-fated charge at Gettysburg...