Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Partly Line. Under severe pressure from the Soviet-supported conservatives, Husak has dismantled the last vestiges of Dubček's promising "Springtime of Freedom." The press, which was free and sassy for a few heady months in 1968, once again is tightly controlled. The journalists whose daring reporting helped fuel the Czechoslovaks' demands for reform have either been sacked or effectively muzzled. Radio and television now echo only the party line. The student union, the stronghold of the reformist youth, has been disbanded...
...politically insensitive Ministry of Defense. Then the President put together a Cabinet to his own taste, composed of twelve Gaullists and seven members of the independent right and center parties. It faithfully reflects Pompidou's desire for a more moderate foreign policy, fiscal restraint, and possibly a harder line on student dissent. The five...
...Francisco State once ranked among the top public colleges in the U.S. It is now a sad symbol of the American campus destroying itself. All sides can share the blame: the minority-group students who made extravagant "nonnegotiable" demands, the divided faculty, the administrators who temporized, the hard-line trustees, the police who broke S.F.'s bloody student strike last winter at a cost of 120 casualties and more than 730 arrests. The past, though, is less important than the future: Is the violence finally under control...
...accused his onetime friend, Author-Journalist Quentin Reynolds, of "nuding along the public road" with "his wench, absolutely raw," and of bearing a "yellow streak." In the ensuing 1954 libel trial, Reynolds' lawyer, Louis Nizer, humiliated Pegler by reading him unidentified writings that Pegler dismissed as "the Communist line"-only to learn that they were his own prose from the 1930s. Reynolds won a $175,001 award, paid by Hearst...
...Suffolk Downs take the MBTA to Park Street, transfer to Government Center, and take the Airport line to the track. Post time for the first race...