Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become home for those wanting a good, interdisciplinary education, but without the academic orientation desired by the professors running the programs. This "honors-only" approach leads to some pretty bizarre arrangements, and until the number of interdisciplinary, area studies and joint degree programs is expanded, these situations will persist...
...score in the U.S. desperately in need of repair. There are still Americans starving, as well as Asians, and still many citizens in need of homes and education and the prospects of hope. These unsatisfied needs cannot be blamed on Viet Nam. If the cries of the needy persist in the '70s there will be a social tragedy: the rav ages of peace...
College journalism has a borrowed vice. Young men, getting a pen into their hands, use it recklessly in spite of the warning of good taste. They forget that they pretend to be gentlemen, hence unpleasant contests. Hard words, we believe, should be eserved for those cases where men wilfully persist in wrong action. Such cases, it is needless to say, rarely occur in college. It is an evil of the same kind, though not of the same degree, to try to convince by epithets, as to have recourse to bowie-knife and revolver when the pen has failed...
...bombings of North Viet Nam also aroused doubts-moral questions that would persist even though the bombing was halted as abruptly as it began. At My Lai, most Americans believe, a handful of atypical G.I.s were acting "illegally" when they slaughtered several hundred Vietnamese civilians. Last week American bomber pilots were killing Vietnamese civilians-who in this case were fiercely defended by SAM missiles-but now it was official U.S. policy, ordered by the Commander in Chief...
Peking's Foreign Ministry: "Should the U.S. Government disregard the desire of the people of Viet Nam and obdurately persist in its war of aggression, the Chinese people will, as always, resolutely perform their internationalist duty and give all-out support and assistance to the Vietnamese people till complete victory is won." Premier Chou En-lai said that the renewed bombing could endanger the improved Chinese-American relations...