Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These are not isolated incidents," Eisenstadt said. 'We will meet force with force. I would not hesitate for a moment in recommending expulsion for students engaging in this activity...
...THESE are times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest...
...ideals are your ideals, or at least what you have professed to be your ideals. Nor are they difficult to understand. Honesty, equality, peace, love--these are the words you have taught us to respect, and these are the values we have taken to heart. But at the very moment that you stress these abstractions, you seem to be asking us to accommodate ourselves to a society that reduces them to slogans and then proceeds blatantly to disregard them...
...temper, Young is also quick to clamp down on undergraduate activities that go too far. After a fraternity held a party that barred Negroes and Mexican Americans, Young suspended it from the campus. In the face of a massive student revolt, he says, "I wouldn't hesitate a moment to call in the police...
...incurable English accent. But Sheed's tale is more than an ironic pathology of the right-wing mind, more, even, than a wry diagnosis of a severely fractured nationality. It also captures the comic anguish of a youth who begins to understand himself just at the moment when he loses the sense...