Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needed that. Those three brave and simple men, flying farther and faster to more forbidding frontiers than ever before, were an inspiration we have needed and must not now let slip. In tormented 1968, symbols of pride and constructive achievement were singularly lacking in our national life, but to end on such an upswing might be just what we need to urge us to work harder, moan less, and move into 1969 with a new resolve to overcome our earthbound problems...
...legal pads. At week's end his Cabinet members assembled in New York at the Pierre hotel headquarters for two days of briefings with the heads of 21 task forces that have been studying the problems facing the incoming Administration. Henry Loomis, director of the policy task force, let it be known that there would be no sudden departures. "Don't expect dramatic shifts or changes," said Loomis. "Maybe Nixon will be able to slow down or alter the direction of 3% to 5% of existing programs in his first year, maybe 8% to 10% in his second...
...just the war or his occasional crudities that soured the promising Johnson years. Horace Busby, Johnson's friend and a perceptive former aide, pointed out recently that social changes now come so rapidly that they outstrip the ability to comprehend them, let alone cope with them. Occasionally, Johnson's shrewd mind did grasp the moment and the need. When, after Selma, he went before Congress to vow "We shall overcome," he was genuinely moving. And some of the innovative programs he began, such as Headstart, testified to his willingness to seek new solutions. Yet all too often...
...respected in his field but virtually unknown in the outside world, made his position clear from the beginning. He would negotiate with the students, he said, and he would make concessions if they seemed appropriate. But above all, he would keep the college open. "We're not going to let 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...
Weinberg also claimed that papers would allow students to develop their own opinions on issues raised in the course, and that a wider choice of reading material would let students find arguments to back their varying stands...