Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being written these days in key spots throughout this land. It's called "National Youth Service." Don't buy it. It's a euphemism for the grim and ugly reality of THE DRAFT. If the Pentagon can't figure out how to make a success of its volunteer army, let them give up the war idea altogether. Let unswerving opposition to this so-called Youth Service mark the recrudescence of student activism. Let Harvard lead the way in the cry for NO DRAFT! NO CONSCRIPTION! NO SELECTIVE SERVICE! John G. Conley...
...extend to such Western values as human rights and intellectual freedom. No such luck. The Peking government is now trying to stamp out those pernicious notions in what seemed to be a reprise of the anti-intellectual purge in 1957 that crushed Chairman Mao's short-lived 'let a hundred flowers bloom" campaign...
...would seem suicidal for any political leader to challenge just a few of these groups, let alone most of them. Yet the broad mass of Americans are wearying of inflation, regulation and budget busting. They realize that those three mighty forces have impeded investment and caused the nation to fall behind, and they may be ready to support the courageous political leader who will tackle the special interests headon. In times of such ferment, the public may well be prepared to accept fairly radical steps. Some possibilities...
...that tied the Yanks on the last day of the season. More important, he was the heart of the Red Sox clubhouse, the only man who could make his teammates laugh while their world crumbled about them. The Red Sox were mystified and angry when their front office let the old magician...
...dusk, some of the demonstrators drove in a motorcade to the Winthrop home of Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King after yesterday's rally. "We want to let the governor know we are there," Diane Keefe, a Clamshell Alliance spokesman, said...