Word: hardening
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...Communists on troop withdrawals and the tripartite commission. He said merely that with an election coming, the Administration would have to put on a show of serious negotiating for a while, but that it would be "a different story" after a Nixon win. Implying that the U.S. position would harden again, he suggested that Thieu plan on an invasion of North Viet...
...long as they have, the wonder is that we don't see more violence than we really do." Indeed, despite some isolated improvement, most prisons are still better equipped to punish prisoners than to rehabilitate them. Official prison structures remain more likely to make new criminals or harden old ones than to reform anyone. Thus the new breadth of the schools for crime is especially critical in determining how a prisoner will turn out. And if a convict's rage against imprisonment is mixed too explosively with warped philosophies of justification, the results can be frightening instances...
...result of these Democratic successes, Strauss has advised candidates to harden their attacks on President Nixon for "lack of leadership, inflation, unemployment-everything." These criticisms, of course, carry the hard-line message that the U.S.'s real problem is a President crippled by Watergate, and that the nation would be better off if Nixon left office, whether by resignation or impeachment...
Stymied more by the political turmoil of Mali than the disastrous four-year drought that continues relentlessly in North Africa, the six-man Guggenheim expedition, including Harden N. Wiedemann '75, returned to Cambridge this week...
...their tarnished image, police do manage to maintain courtroom respect -in some cases and in some places. Boston Defense Attorney Joseph Balliro points out that "anything that jurors really can't relate to will make them harden up. Motorcycle gangs, homosexuals, radicals, any defendants who threaten the juries emotionally, economically or politically" seem to lend credibility to the policeman as witness. "Suburban, small-town juries," says Balliro, "view a cop as the boy next door because, in a small town, he is." And they believe...