Word: pamphleteered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend of people like David Sarnoff and Lewis Strauss. He coined the word television. He thought of radar roughly six months before bats did. From weightlessness to squeeze-package food, he described the problems of space travel as early as 1929. Every Christmas he puts out a pamphlet called Forecast, and in it he has not only predicted some inventions that have already come to be (like the telescoping ramps that hook up to jets at air terminals) but many more for the future. This past Christmas, for example, Hugo told the world that by 1972 all Negroes can have...
...unite in an inclusive Brotherhood to replace existing sects?" on the ground that "Our publisher feels that the interests of the greatest number of our readers are best served by avoiding controversial subjects of a religious nature." A Boston paper has rejected the ad, "Brotherhood Church is a free pamphlet...
Harvard's self-assurance is therefore maddening. In the pamphlet Information About Harvard College, prospective freshmen are told that at Harvard, "teaching and research, college and university, march together." Extolling the Harvard "virtue" of a small college within a large university, the book warns students away from Big Bad Universities, which inevitably have the evils of "mass education, lack of concern for the undergraduate, lack of interest in the objectives of a liberal education and infrequent meaningful contacts between teacher and students." That sounds suspiciously like a description of Harvard College...
...could be materially damaged by failure to accept federal law peacefully. They attributed the disasters of Little Rock and New Orleans to the abdication of responsibility, by community leadership. If a similar vacuum were created in Dallas, the least respectable elements could destroy the city's good name. A pamphlet warned that "racial violence, and situations which might provide the setting for such violence, must be avoided at all costs in Dallas." Just as they had promoted the railroads and the Centennial in past years, the business men set out to sell law and order...
From all reports, the FBI and the Dallas police were well prepared for the President's visit. For the past several years Dallas has been the center of the "Hate Kennedy Cult of Texas." A Republican pamphlet calling for a fund to retire all the Kennedys to rocking chairs in '64 was widely distributed. A couple of days before Kennedy's visit, fliers appeared in down-town Dallas with the President's picture and the caption "wanted for treason." On the morning of November 22nd, a full page advertisement in the News called Kennedy a traitor and a communist...