Word: hardens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From now on it will be easy to kill students, because no one will care. They will read of two of them shot, and it will not be as many as four; they will harden themselves to the shock value that Kent presented. As time passes they will forget or become immune to the reality as they have become immune to the slaughter in Viet Nam. They will present the same apathetic front that destroyed Germany in the '30s, and history will repeat itself...
Watching the news on TV, you harden again, backed against the futile wall of Washington politics. You see the impotence of the demonstrators, letting the air out of the bus fires because they can't break through the barricades to get to the politicians...
...There is no doubt that determined terrorists can blow up property, people and a community's equilibrium. But in a nation where the overwhelming majority favor either the status quo or orderly reform in the liberal tradition, mindless acts of violence by a self-appointed revolutionary elite only harden resistance to legitimate, necessary change. Says New York Mayor John Lindsay: "The use of explosives to tear down the system is self-defeating. It's cowardly. No democratic system can live that way. Society cannot permit...
Boxing, a sport invented by the Spartans to harden the face, will be spotlighted this afternoon in the finals of the Intramural Boxing Tournament...
With Withro in almost universal disfavor, Wil Stevens was the second man to be turned against, although it took almost the whole first semester for the four other proprietors to harden themselves enough to ask him to resign. Stevens had become only a figurehead for the HarBus...