Word: getting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might try to pass the buck upward to Colonel Frank Barker, the task force commander, who was killed after the massacre. Some observers argue that the Army hopes to convict the lowest-ranking officer who is charged in the case. All the men under him might then try to get off by claiming that they were simply following his orders, which, at the time, seemed necessary and proper in a heavily Viet Cong area...
...Goldwater operative, sits up front on the Nixonian stage, riding shotgun for John Mitchell on the Moratorium marchers. Everywhere on TV is Herb Klein, the Administration's director of communications, who with boyish grin and crinkly eyes, has proved a master of articulating the President's get-tough policies with a lowered voice...
...Protest: "Any time you get somebody marching in the streets, it's catering to revolution. It started with the colored people in the South. Now other groups are taking to the streets. We could have worked out the integration battle without allowing them to march. My family worked for everything we had. We even have a deed from the King of England for property in South Carolina. Now these jerks come along and try to give it to the Communists...
...discipline of children. You don't inhibit them even if they are threatening to break up the whole house. Now we are reaping the results. Margaret Mead caused a lot of the trouble. She advocates taking drugs and early marriages. She and those other spooks just want to get their names in the paper. A few years ago, if you did something wrong, you were sent to the principal's office. Today the Roman Catholic schools are about the only ones that have discipline." For that reason, the Mitchells, who are not Roman Catholics, send their daughter Marty...
...tend to be written by people on the liberal side because they are more articulate. People like Schlesinger and Galbraith. But our libraries must express-clearly and openly-both sides." Finding writers on the other side, however, is not always easy. Recently Shakespeare fretted: "Why can't we get a good conservative like Richard Kerr to do some writing for us?" Assistants searched diligently, but could find no Richard Kerr; Shakespeare had meant Conservative Author Russell Kirk, the neo-Burkean scholiast...