Word: maher
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...endorsed councillors were joined by three independents: Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., Bernard Goldberg, and William G. Maher. The only real point of agreement among the five is their support of DeGuglielmo, and a consequent opposition to the minority bloc on the Council...
...biggest handicap to wider use of TV is a residual prejudice against the tape techniques among students and faculty. Many professors hate to change their way of doing things, claim they can teach better in a live exchange with students, although Wisconsin Associate Geology Professor Louis Maher contends that "when you have 200 students in one group, you tend to lecture to the walls anyway." Extensive use of tape is likely to force professors to specialize more: one may become the stirring lecturer, another a skilled lab-type demonstrator, another an inspiring seminar leader. After years of academic pressure...
Finally, they are being unashamedly hostile in their public dialogue with the peaceniks. When one group supporting a peace resolution attended a recent City Council meeting, Councillor William G. Maher asked one of them if he were a Communist. "That's a rather low blow," the petition pedlar said. "There is no blow too low," Maher retorted, "you are the lowest...
After more than an hour of frequently bitter debate with the anti-war group, the Council voted unanimously to refer the petition to the Committee on Public Safety and Service. The referral in effect killed any possibility of Council action, since the committee's chairman, Councillor William G. Maher, is a bitter opponent of the petition...
Councillor Maher repeatedly asked the witnesses if they planned to "join the Hanoi line by demonstrating to shut down the Pentagon on October 21." After laughter drowned one such question, Maher requested the spectators to "be so courteous as to listen, even if they won't support our country...