Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he said things that needed saying-and the majority of Americans doubtless found his arguments unexceptionable-Nixon probably won few converts from the ranks of the disaffected. Hard-core radicals, such as the Marxist-oriented Students for a Democratic Society (estimated nationwide membership: 6,000), for example, reject all such rational formulations. Negroes know that agitation in the '50s and '60s has prompted more progress than did reasoned argument. Test cases frequently come from broken laws. At many universities in the past two years, it was clear that authorities agreed to reforms after, rather than before, upheavals...
...LB.J. Many on Capitol Hill, including some Republicans, attribute the dearth of activity to the Administration. It has been slow to formulate a legislative program and reluctant to push hard for the specific requests that it has made. The charge is at least partly accurate. Even before Inauguration Day, it was clear that Richard Nixon intended to hold down expenditures-and hence any new domestic programs-where possible, and to avoid unnecessary clashes with the Democratic-controlled Congress...
...from nine months to six years. Last week at Fort Ord, Calif., twelve others were found guilty of mutiny-despite defense pleas during the 35-day trial that the men were emotionally disturbed by the shooting of their fellow prisoner. They were sentenced to six to 15 months at hard labor. Of the remaining seven accused mutineers, two were found guilty of lesser offenses and got up to six months, two are in hospitals, and three others escaped and have not been heard from since...
...doctrine from its first victims. Shortly before leaving for Moscow, Czechoslovak Party First Secretary Gustav Husak, who in April replaced Alexander Dubcek, declared that "anti-Communist and anti-Soviet insti gations" had justified the intervention of Czechoslovakia's Warsaw Pact neigh bors. In Moscow, Husak, accompanied by new hard-line officials who only the week before had accomplished a purge of most of the prominent liberals on the Czechoslovak Central Committee, pleaded with the Italians and other foreign Communists not to discuss the Czechoslovakia issue in the conference...
...today's parlance would be called a "developing area." Its social structure was crumbling under the impact of science and industrialization. Three attitudes toward change were fairly clearly defined: 1) conservative, 2) progressive or, as it was called, "liberal," and 3) revolutionary. Then, as now, thoroughgoing reactionaries were hard to find; nobody seriously tried to restore the pre-industrial Europe. But there were many clingers, people who fought rearguard actions, defending for reasons of interest or sentiment one or another bastion of the pre-industrial past. Against them, the liberals, mainly middle-class and including many intellectuals, carried...