Word: opted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people paid money to see it. Cassius' cut of the purse was $264,838-which was impressive enough but may not do him much good where he is going. Ordered to report for induction into the Army on April 11, Black Muslim Clay says he may opt for jail instead...
...authors write, are staffed by a "domineering but frightened president" and a "faculty tyrannized by the president and in turn tyrannizing the students." They "admit almost any high school graduate who will pay tuition and graduate most of those who keep paying." But about half the students simply opt out-and not without reason: "These colleges are so monotonous that it may well be the better students who leave, in frustration or boredom...
...then radical notion of an eight-hour working day instituted, and plans drawn up for land reform, the most pressing problem of all. Kerensky, who quickly became a national hero, pinned his hopes on elections for a constituent assembly. But his government was torn between those who wanted to opt out of the war and those who felt that Russia's obligations to the Allies should be honored. Hardly anyone experienced in government existed, and all the pre-revolutionary problems remained and multiplied. Above all, Russia still carried the serf's burden of its long, dismal past. Oppressed...
...answer cannot lie either in mere swagger or in mere compassion. The age-old problem of reconciling love and justice is cogently analyzed by German Catholic Theologian Karl Rahner, who feels that "it is impossible to make our existence a paroxysm of nonviolence." The Christian "should always first opt for the path of love; yet as long as this world exists, a rational, hard, even violent striving for justice may well be the secular personification of love." Love, or even justice, may only be dimly discernible in the brutal landscape of Viet Nam-but that does not change the principle...
...present Bicker system, by which the clubs pick the sophomores they want, perpetuates the hierarchy and the stereoyptes. Bottom clubs are forced to "top cut"--not give bids to campus big shots they know will opt for one of the top five (Cottage, Ivy, Cap and Gown, Colonial, and Tiger Inn). The top clubs are pretty well assured of getting the men they want, and during Bicker they send out their best members to get the desirable sophomores...