Word: nixonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was true enough last Spring. It is more true now. PALC and Afro set the terms of student protest last year, and the antiwar movement--spurred by some coincidental Nixonian outrages--joined in. Since then, PALC's leaders have scattered and Harvard Afro has turned its attention to internal matters...
...willingness to seize that opportunity, says Economist Walter Heller, "represents its best opportunity to go down in history on the economic front as a constructive leadership." The President would be opening a front at a point that most economists, both liberal and conservative, believe is ripe for a Nixonian counterrevolution...
...Americans generally, and Congress in particular, felt only recently; and that is what is so terribly sad, that their efforts were so futile. In May of 1971, the U.S. government could round up 7000 Washington demonstrators in one day--10,000 in a week--and get away with it. Nixonian Washington had so undermined the credibility of students and the Left by then that most Americans visualized only a bunch of crazed hippies roaming the streets of the Capitol. A handful of people, such as those who marched in the Civil Rights movement a decade ago, understood the frustration felt...
...three days after its envoys signed a peace agreement with the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front. No, this was one man who embodies a perverse diplomacy built up in Washington war-rooms over a decade. Our generation has still to face up to a second term of Nixonian Washington...
...attempt a strike that was doomed from the outset. Some of us, recalling the apocalyptic days of 1970, thought perhaps World War III was coming. Richard Nixon knew better, though, or so he told the Associated Press. Perhaps we knew better, too, because we had seen so many Nixonian aberrations go by the American people and the rest of the world, and we were still here, intact...