Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object of the exercise was less to mete out justice than to pressure the Bonn government into cracking down on the flourishing business of helping East Germans, principally highly trained professionals like doctors and engineers, to escape to the West. Stiff jail sentences were part of the message. One of the accused, a West Berlin seaman named Karl-Heinz Hetzschold, 30, got 11½ years for damaging East German interests and illegal profiteering. The lightest sentence was seven years for long-haired Hans-Dieter Voss...
...huddle there nightly to talk about the conflict at home and about their own uneasy status in the U.S. The fact that among students and faculty there are few Arabs-and many Jews-at Harvard aggravates Arab feelings of isolation. Senior Omar Rifai, a Jordanian, feels more like an object of curiosity than discrimination, but he claims that he still has to listen to some of his professors say "that the Arabs are cowardly, that we live in tents...
...object so much. He could still call the plays. He could keep the press out of the locker room. He could work up intricate line maneuvers to conceal his offenses...
Many Congressmen object to Moakley's bill because they feel it is a "Democratic ruse to have the people go to the polls when the Republican party is at its lowest point," he said...
...Harvard Business School students showed that 61% favored resignation; 75% felt the President was acting in a "dictatorial manner." To a cheering overflow crowd at Amherst College, Historian Henry Steele Commager declared: "The history of the present Administration is the history of repeated injurious usurpations having as direct object the subversion of the Constitution and the laws of the land...