Word: lames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mollify him. Not only did it occur at a juncture when the allies are on the defensive, but, coming so early, it may pull the commander's punch. "Why the hell did they announce it now?" asked one high-ranking officer in Saigon. "Do they want to lame-duck his next couple of months...
...DRAFT The Lame, the Halt, THe Blind & the Female A long-standing criticism of the Selective Service System is that it unduly favors the college student, who can almost always escape military service if he stays in school long enough-and thereafter is usually qualified to enter a draft-proof profession. In response to such complaints, Congress last June knocked out deferments for nearly all graduate students, excepting only those going into medicine, dentistry and related fields, as well as the ministry...
Nathan Pusey, would leave only "the lame, the halt, the blind and the female" in next fall's first-year classes...
What seems more likely is that Munyon chose not to add to the activist forces, and that no list of lame excuses can serve to justify White's astounding rise in fortune...
Pusey notes that in virtually every area of the University professors are showing a growing concern for what is happening in the outside world. His own lame conclusion is that "One might deplore or commend it" (he does both). The University serves, as it always has, as a place where student and professor can deal in a variety of ways with problems that are very real to each. Even vociferous political demonstrations are not without precedent or usefulness. "Bringing students of this persuasion back to reality," may, as Pusey says, present a challenge to the Faculty, though some at least...