Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...propaganda is an art in itself. In the flourishing brush strokes of Chinese calligraphy, the tatzebao alternately denounce, cajole, exhort and praise. Last week they so covered the walls of cities, government buildings and even private huts that the citizens of Canton had to read their messages on the ground, where frustrated Red Guards laid out their latest scribblings and weighted them down with stones...
...Early Ground Rules...
...credited with inventing the term "a just war," could apply it to military action "against men, who, though intended by nature to be governed, will not submit." The Romans took over the idea of a just war as an instrument of efficient administration, and Cicero laid down some pragmatic ground rules. Only states could wage war, he insisted, and only soldiers could fight them-a useful device to preclude revolution. Before one state could attack another, hostilities had to be formally declared, leaving time for reply...
...they were enemy property, and the U.S. promptly impounded them. In fact, they were nearly sold at auction until the State Department intervened, pointing out that as the property of a public museum, they belonged to the German people. The works were then deposited in the National Gallery-in ground floor vaults...
...Berkeley are really not solely responsible for the agitation there, as California newspapers claim and Californians believe. "Unfortunately, they are aided and abetted by some of our own students who share this hostility toward the university," Heyns explains. "It is apparent that we have lost some of the ground we had gained in our efforts over the past two years to build a genuine campus community. I understand that there were some weaknesses in the Campus Rules Committee, but I think this joint commission can discuss all the reasons for this development. All of us, including the administration, through misunderstandings...