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Word: men (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect the Resistance itself, and the five figurehead defendants were held responsible for the entire draft-card burning, induction-refusal movement. One assumes that the government could not tolerate the tremendous anti-war moral tide unless it could be boiled down to a conspiracy. That not one of the men knew another any more than in passing made no difference to the charge of conspiracy. Shared beliefs equal conspiracy when the government needs a charge...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: From the Shelf The Trial of Dr. Spock | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

Thus the charge of conspiracy, like a horrible shadowy octopus, swallowed up the men and issues whole and forced on them a half-hearted legal defense. The story of the trial becomes almost absurd as we see Sloane Coffin's lawyer arguing that if his client did in fact aid and abet the burning of draft cards, this did not hinder Selective Service but help it, since all draft card violators were to be immediately reclassified as I-A meat on the hoof...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: From the Shelf The Trial of Dr. Spock | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

Hershey was born on an Indiana farm in 1893 During the thirties, he developed the draft system which has provided more than 14,5 million men for wars in Europe, the Pacify, Korea, and finally Vietnam. He became director of the system four months before Pearl Harbor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nixon Fires Gen. Hershey, To Pick Civilian for Post | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

COLUMBIA-HARVARD: Imaging a beauty contest between the waitresses at Hazen's and a group of bunnies from the Boston Playboy Club after the bunnies got run over by dirty old men in Mack Trucks. The bunnies would win anyway, right? So it is today in Harvard Stadium. The Crimson is missing some big boys, like G. Farneti, and F. Martucci. But that still leaves the Crimson far ahead of the Lions, who wish they had someone that good to get injured. You Know? So maybe our guys will wise up today and splurge on desire. Maybe Dave Smith...

Author: By Bennett H, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 10/11/1969 | See Source »

Loretta's daughter, Maureen, also has trouble with men, particularly her stepfather, who nearly beats her to death. The battering reduces the girl to a state of psychic numbness. When her will reasserts itself, she plots to seduce and marry a man "gaunt with normality," who already has a wife and three children. If she can't have a life transformed by love, at least she can have a house and family in the suburbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Urban Gothic | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

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