Word: mende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events on the domestic scene today without feeling that these are dark days for the nation. But it may be that we were in greater peril when we were less worried, when all the present evils were layered over by our national smugness. We may even be on the mend. But our salvation will never be handed to us. If we are lucky, we will be given the chance to earn it. Unfortunately, we are enormously clever at avoiding self-examination...
...other complaints, one can understand and even sympathize, yet remain unable to meet them. Some measure of authority and hierarchy are inherent in the academic world -- or in any world for that matter. If individual faculty members are overly remote or authoritarian, we can piously urge them to to mend their ways, but there is no way of commanding them...
...time while he was on the mend, she had moved back to the Gettysburg farm, making frequent visits to the hospital. Last week Mamie moved back into Walter Reed. Meanwhile, as he traveled through Europe, President Nixon was receiving frequent reports on his old boss's health...
...four large tires -which is just what it is. It is also the smartest thing on wheels to a growing corps of Coot fanciers. They drive it through mud, up mountains, across lakes and into woods, all the places conventional vehicles cannot roll. They use it to hunt, fish, mend fences, find stranded sheep and haul fertilizer. The vehicle is also put into service by federal forest rangers and by a dozen law enforcement agencies for search and rescue operations in rocky country...
...report makes some of its most important proposals in the section on University-Community relations. With sharper focus than the Wilson Committee, the report urges the University to reconsider the "morality" of its hiring, real estate, and investment policies. That reconsideration is over-due. While trying to mend its internal racial problems, Harvard should also see what its investment and hiring policies can do to help racial equality outside its walls...