Word: objectionable
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For an audience of high school and college editors in New York, the Vice President answered the rote objection that the Saigon government is unstable, undemocratic and unpopular. "For many centuries," explained Old Teacher Humphrey, "the Vietnamese people lived under mandarin rule. Then came generations of colonial domination followed by...
Administration critics charge that the Government's Asian policy casts the U.S. in the role of policeman to the world. This objection was seldom voiced during the height of the cold war, since these critics tend to believe that Europe is a legitimate sphere of influence for America. Last...
"Nothing More Normal." The classic objection to interCommunion is the fact that churches disagree about what the Eucharist signifies-Catholics believe that the bread and wine become Christ's body and blood, while Reformed churches say that he is spiritually present in the consecrated elements. The advocates of interCommunion...
Keitel's memoirs, written at Nürnberg during his trial and completed just before his execution, reveal a mind that was both humorless and unimaginative; he did, however, have a vast capacity for administrative drudgery-and all were qualities that Hitler recognized as essentials in a subordinate if...
But the Ivy League's frequently expressed objection to the rule's references to "student-athletes," on the grounds that there is no distinction between athletes and other students in the Ivies, is petty and irrelevent. After all, the NCAA is an athletic association and can concern itself only with...