Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose names are national household words. Two of the leading academicians in the class, however, are city planner Charles Eliot, who taught at the School of Design, and composer Randall Thompson, who taught in the College's music department. Other men of interest include Gilbert Hood, of Hood Milk, hawkish Congressman Philip J. Philbin (D-Mass.), Sidney Rabb, owner of Stop and Shop, and Franklin Vorenberg, president of Gilchrist's and father of the Harvard Law professor, Hood solicited $400,000 this year for the class gift...
...argued that Ball and other officials who were apparently against a hard-line policy−such as Adlai Stevenson and Arthur Goldberg−may have prevented an even more hawkish stance by their dissenting presence. But their resignations might have had a greater impact. How to choose? Lord Caradon, Britain's Ambassador to the U.N., proposes these criteria for the resignation of a Cabinet member: 1) he must be directly involved in a policy that he opposes, 2) he has suggested a viable alternative that has been rejected, 3) the issue is a continuing...
...Ralph Yarborough (D.-Texas), recently defeated in a primary by a hawkish opponent, said that he would have won if only 10,000 of Texas' 400,000 college students had aided his campaign. "You'd have enough votes to end the war if you'd get out in these campaigns." he said...
...what he was doing. Golda Meir and her Cabinet refused to give their blessing to a man whose views about Israel are diametrically opposed to their own. The Goldmann trip to Cairo was thus aborted, and the Israeli government came under unusual criticism at home for being too hawkish and rigid...
...social scientist, Gerzon avoids the droll stories, the epigrams and the sassy obscenity that made Kunen's Strawberry Statement so palatable. Whatever flavor there is in this book comes from a few sparse anecdotes which record the author's trivial brushes with the Establishment. In one encounter, a hawkish stewardess starts a discussion of the Vietnam war. She is confounded...