Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee does not object to Kissinger's credentials but rather to the "moral results of Kissinger's policy," McCorkle added...
First, he seems to show a complete misunderstanding of the problem of the so-called "Moonies." Their distribution of literature is fine, and I do not believe that anyone can rationally object to this constitutional exercise. What I do object to, and what I believe the Harvard administration objects to, is the Moonies' apparent brainwashing of my peers and possible ties with the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (now under investigation by Congress). I do not feel that Harvard has the obligation Kilson implies to defend such activities. Indeed, support for brainwashing and the South Korean CIA area the real...
...Hitch. Washington took care to get foreign fishing nations to sign prior agreements to abide by the 200-mile U.S. limit. They could scarcely object because most had enacted 200-mile limits of their own, much to the discomfort of U.S. fishermen who net shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico and tuna in the Pacific off Ecuador and Peru...
...children reported that they liked school and a whopping 90% said they approved of their teachers and classmates. But all is not idyllic in the classroom either. About two-thirds of the children worry about tests, an equal number feel ashamed of mistakes, and more than half object to classroom disorder and unruliness (never, or so they said, perpetrated by themselves). And, it seems, parents are still wielding the stick. More than 75% of black children and 66% of whites say that their mothers want them to be "one of the best students in the class...
...these permissive days it is hard to imagine what sort of female could be talked about in such a way. One half expects a practitioner of cannibalism or perhaps a worshiper of Baal. In fact, the object of all this vituperation is a small (5 ft. 5½ in.), slender (124 Ibs.) Miami housewife who believes passionately in the virtues of middle-class monogamy. Now 39, she came from a poor family in Mansfield, Ohio ("I grew up on peanut butter sandwiches"), and worked as a beautician to send herself to Ohio State University. There she became May Queen, having...