Word: peacenik
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...heart attack; in Arlington, Va. Appointed to the federal bench by President Eisenhower in 1960, he regularly cut short questioning he found irrelevant, put questions himself, and pushed both sides with his familiar exhortation "Get on with it!" He rendered important school desegregation decisions; he consistently opposed 1960s peacenik protesters, saying, "I never let a deserter try the Viet Nam War"; and he ruled in 1978 that ex-CIA Agent Frank Snepp had violated a contractual pledge of secrecy by publishing a critical account of the 1975 fall of Saigon, a ruling upheld by the Supreme Court...
...years. In addition, I have held academic appointments at Northeastern University, Union College, Stephens College and Boston University. I have been consultant to mental health and intergroup relations programs from here to Oklahoma, and from Detroit to Tallahassee. I am co-director of Reconciliation Enterprises, a small group of peacenik zealots who have sponsored constructive dialogues over the last eight or nine years among Arabs and Israelis, Blacks and Whites as well as Native Americans and foreigners...
...forms. The word politician, which may carry enough downbeat connotation for most tastes, can be given additional unsavoriness by truncation: pol. By prefacing liberal and conservative with ultra or arch, both labels can be saddled with suggestions of inflexible fanaticism. To speak of a pacifist or peacemaker as a peacenik is, through a single syllable, to smear someone with the suspicion that he has alien loyalties. The antifeminist who wishes for his (or her) prejudice to go piggyback on his (or her) language will tend to speak not of feminists but of fern-libbers. People with only limited commitments...
...opening a national dialogue on ways to control and reduce the awesome and frightening nuclear arsenals of the superpowers. This new awareness of the dangers of nuclear war cuts across traditional political boundaries. Advocates of a bilateral freeze on the development and deployment of nuclear weapons include some peacenik activists who led protests against U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War a decade ago. But the new movement is far more broadly based; it includes more bishops than Berrigans, doctors and lawyers with impeccable Establishment credentials, archconservatives as well as diehard liberals, and such knowledgeable experts as retired Admiral Noel...
...with the idea that Afghanistan may turn out to be the Soviet Union's Viet Nam-never mind that Afghanistan is right on the Soviet border and that whatever else the leaders in Moscow have to worry about, they need not fear student marches on the Kremlin or peacenik political challengers in the next elections to the Supreme Soviet...