Word: objection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Often the praise becomes extravagant. "The 18th century produced a lot of men who had a truly universal approach-Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, for instance, and that's what I see in John Gardner," says Old Neighbor Dean Rusk. "The future is his business. His object is to anticipate the problems of tomorrow and help people to become prepared...
...entire triangle was surrounded to cut off escape routes. Battalions of Vietnamese army regulars and U.S. troops were stationed along the perimeter to serve as blocking forces, and fleets of barges fitted out with "quad-fifties" (clusters of four .50-caliber machine guns) patrolled the rivers. But the object of the operation was not simply to trap Viet Cong, even though 286 were killed and 64 captured during the week. This time the Americans were bent on destroying the Iron Triangle as a Communist base...
...With visitors from Ivy and Cottage and Tiger Inn he played the 'nice, unspoilt, ingenuous boy,' very much at ease and quite unaware of the object of the call. When the fatal night arrived early in March, he slid smoothly into Cottage with Alec Connage and watched his suddenly neurotic class with much wonder...
...feel that the use of force is not necessarily destructive of human worth or human capacities. ... Criminals, rioting mobs, mentally disturbed persons, and uncontrollable children, to cite a few examples, must be restrained lest they harm themselves and society.... It is the use of violence to which I object. Unlike the force employed by police, the violence employed by a state waging war is not used with the consent, or for the welfare, of those against whom it is directed; it does not distinguish between guilty and innocent, but devastates everything within range, destroying infants as well as adults, common...
Both Hindus and Buddhists placed great value on the strict discipline of Yoga and they soon recognized that the concentration of the artists was very similar. Those who practice Yoga concentrate on an object until they can overlook the distinction between themselves and the object they are contemplating. Through this concentration a man reputedly achieved a harmony or unity of consciousness...