Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edtorial Board demands only that its aspirants be versatile, articulate and opinionated. From its columns you can subtly manipulate the opinions of the paper's 10,000 readers. Your slightest frown will make theatres close, statesmen tumble, and deans resign...
Taylor also re-emphasized his position against closing any House dining halls on weekends. He cited the influx of family, friends, and dates for football games which make weekend meals more crowded than usual. Further, students coming from closed Houses would create "an awful jam" in the open dining halls, he said...
...Harvard's ambivalent attitude was cited in Congress as a part of an argument that the loyalty oath was acceptable to even the best schools; but clear support of measures to remove the oath, coupled with a firm refusal to accept funds so long as it is required, should make Harvard's stand serve as an argument against the oath...
...oath and were then enjoined to return the funds to the government, full restitution would be necessary. And students who had borrowed with the intention of repaying only fifty per cent of their loans would either have to refund the full amount, or the University would have to make up the other fifty per cent...
Written during the McCarthy era, the original play dealt with the mass hysteria caused by one demogogue playing on the fears of the people. The political overtones of the play were obvious (which is probably why Hollywood has never attempted to make a movie of it), but the play was more than a mere social pamphlet. It centered on the moral struggle of its farmer-hero John Proctor, who, accused of "consorting with the Devil," chooses to die rather than confess to a crime he has not committed...