Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administration of schools demoralized by the deportations, thus cutting into industrial production. So far, these workers have not had much success in reorganizing schools along Maoist lines, largely because the new order has so far not been spelled out. In the bar gain, they find themselves grappling with Red Guard remnants who are reluctant to join the move to the countryside...
...confined to a 12-ft.-square whitewashed room, whose window is partially boarded up. Through the window, he can see the wall, and he can catch only a glimpse of a tiny courtyard and-again-the wall. The door of his room stands open, so. that the ever-present guard at the gate can see him at all times. For five months of the year, the room is chilled by icy winds that blow down on Peking from Siberia. For another five months, fanless, Grey swelters under heat and humidity blown in from the Pacific. And always, the guard just...
...Selective Service Law of 1967 to deny court appeal to men entitled to exemptions by statute. The law restricted the right of men to go to court to challenge the actions of their draft boards. Divinity students, persons under 19 years of age, military veterans, members of the National Guard and the Reserves, and sole surviving sons are affected by the high court decision...
...offer an example of Kurt Vonnegut's explanation of human behavior, this is how he explains why Jones in Mother Night could seem perfectly normal and yet lead the insane "Iron Guard of the White Sons of the American Constitution...
Nixon's worst selection was Maurice Stans for Secretary of Commerce. An Old-Guard Republican whose only virtue was that he raised a lot of money for Nixon's campaign, Stans is supposed to lead the effort to involve business in the ghetto. Almost as bad is Walter Hickel, Secretary of Interior, whose business-development mind will find it hard to understand why conservationists are interested in natural resources. Clifford Hardin, Secretary of Agriculture, evidently does not have any policy for farmers, but his most important decisions will probably be on emergency supplies for undernourished families in the Deep South...