Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon. In the last election, the fear was that George Wallace would deprive both the other candidates of an electoral majority, leaving him free to decide a winner by bargaining with his votes. By challenging Bailey's vote, O'Hara and Muskie hoped, in the latter's words, to "underscore the necessity for a complete reform of the system by constitutional amendment...
...wanted to be unifier and savior, uplifter of the poor at home and father of democracy in Asia. He yearned to be a latter-day Lincoln to the blacks, to outshine F.D.R.'s memory among reformers, to surpass Truman's humane but hardheaded foreign-policy record, to evoke the affection accorded Eisenhower. Above all, Lyndon Johnson ached for the trust of today's voters and the respect of tomorrow's scholars...
...this college be closed down by anybody," Hayakawa said. Reagan echoed him, making television speeches to the people of his state. "I ask you to join me in this commitment," he said, "to protect those students who want to learn. We must rid the campuses of criminal anarchists and latter-day Fascists...
...possibility of conflict of interest is not the most shocking aspect of the new Cabinet; Walter Hickel may indeed turn into a latter-day Albert Fall, but it seems unlikely. What is shocking about these men is the apparent uniformity in the way they think. They all think Business: how to get the biggest job done in the least amount of time at the least possible cost...
...Harvard's role, however small, in perpetuating it, the question of punishment and squashing those students whose concern was too strident for them will be an ideal method of avoiding their responsibility to the students, and faculty, and themselves. However, it seems to me that to allow the latter to happen would be a sad commentary on both the decision-making process at Harvard, and Harvard's concern with problems beyond our own University confines. Hayden A. Duggan...