Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Operation Dewey Canyon III in Washington [May 3] was an excellent illustration of our disgusting situation in Southeast Asia. The actors are veterans. Who should be listened to more attentively? The phrase "They're cowards-they're afraid to go" cannot be utilized here. They have gone. Who could turn his back on a blinded or limbless soldier whose purpose is not evasion of the draft but instruction on the horrifying results of the draft...
...declining to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Last week, at their second meeting, the radicals, supported by newly elected Berkeley Mayor Warren Widener and one of the council's more moderate members, went a step farther. To forestall additional argument about the phrase "liberty and justice for all," the council abolished the pledge altogether from future sessions...
...Section 7, he says it confuses the protection of academic freedom "with almost any complaint about non-renewal that a faculty member wishes to bring up." Kilbridge contends that the phrase "the decision was reached without adequate consideration" is "meaningless, unless to say consideration to what...
...MANY things died or otherwise collapsed during the sixties that it is hard to keep track of them anymore. For instance, who noticed the quiet transformation of the phrase "civil rights" at the close of the decade? Civil rights -a password that once symbolized a whole mass of emotions, politics. tactics and humanitarian creeds. Civil rights - a movement, a march in the sunlight, a bundle of legislative acts promising a great society. Civil rights -goodbye to Bull Conner and all that...
...Black Panthers are gunned down in cold blood by white policemen, we no longer talk about civil rights being violated. There are other words for that sort of thing. There's been a lot of shit under the bridge-and whites and blacks alike no longer toss around the phrase "civil rights" when verbally confronting American racism...