Word: opt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sadism" of pro football [May 24], but the overwhelming evidence seems to indicate that the team that is emotionally "up" for the game is the one that wins, not the one whose players' identity crises have been solved and whose civil rights have been observed. Those who opt for a career in professional sports must face the hard fact that their highly inflated salaries are paid for by the people who want to see and back a winner, not a player who (in Scott's words) feels that "the final score should be almost incidental...
...signs had long been there. By the fall of 1969, it had become clear to critical observers that the new Administration was not going to opt for immediate extrication; the removal of ground troops was slow and inconclusive, and the rest of the war machinery continued to pound away at all of Indochina. President Nixon's November 1969 nationwide address-the Vietnamization speech, largely of Kissinger's design-was an attempt to buy time for the war by neutralizing domestic opposition, time which would be spent to practice strategy and tactics against the NLF and Hanoi. As one former White...
...John Taylor, in fact, professes to fear that sex will become so much fun that people will want to give up practically all nonsexual activities. Author Gordon Rattray Taylor predicts that it may become possible to "buy desire," or switch it on or off at will; the playboy might opt for continuous excitement and the astronaut for freedom from sexual urges during space flight...
Richard Zorza '71, a member of the committee, said, "We felt YAF [Young Americans for Freedom] should not be allowed to co-opt the free speech issue, which can't be separated from...
...groups, wondering why they haven't been pulled together by common opposition to the war. His reading of the country is optimistic, for he suggests a widespread sentiment for peace. In fear and disillusionment, he explains. Americans are reaching out for symbols: laborers take the flag while students opt for change, and neither group understands the other. "Are the walls between these groups real or are they illusory?" he asks. "They are real in the sense that they exist. They are illusory in the sense that they have no reason to exist...