Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exactly. Ed Long's rare, felicific moment on center stage resulted from a decision of the Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct that it could see nothing wrong with his acceptance of $160,000 in legal fees since 1961. While many Senators moonlight,* there were dark hints that Long had profited from his chairmanship of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure by accepting fees to help Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Investigating a LIFE article on Long's finances, the ethics committee, made up of three Democrats and three Republicans, reported that its staff had questioned...
...severing anyone, the Faculty realized that many of the students became involved in the demonstration on the spur of the moment last Wednesday. Their activities grew out of justifiable bitterness over the war and the use of napalm. At most, only a few of those punished were determined to mount a premeditated assault on the rules of the University. And many of the demonstrators now regret the tactic of obstruction they used to protest the war and Dow's appearance at Harvard...
...November, 1960, students staged what would become known as a "sit-in" at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were trying to integrate that restaurant through direct action instead of working for the election of a sympathetic mayor or city councilman. It was an historic moment in the evolution of American dissent. This rejection of electoral politics caught the imagination of students around the country. SNCC grew out of the Greensboro lunch counter...
...Cornell's Bill Robertson at the moment ranks as the most dangerous passer in the circuit and should twirl a 21-7 Big Red victory...
...abuse of others' rights. This was something more than an "inconvenience to the University," as the CRIMSON dismisses it. It was the deliberate imprisonment of two men for the crime of recruitment for a company which works for a government which pursues a policy with which many, at the moment, do not agree. It was a denial of the right of other members of this community to disagree with the conclusions of the three hundred and speak to the interviewers. That their imprisonment was a relatively pleasant one and that the inconvenience to Dow and to other students...