Word: pick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little war a few years back someone chortled. Wrong war, allowed Ed. Next time we've got to pick one we can win. Laughter, and a little fresh coffee came around...
HOWARD ZINN, historian: One of my criticisms of history, culture and education in the U.S. is the heavy emphasis on leaders and the lack of emphasis on social movements. But if I were to pick one or two who have had some impact on our society it would be people like Dick Gregory. He could have had a comfortable career as a comedian but he has shown a willingness to sacrifice himself in his fight on racism, war, the nuclear questions...
...working to improve the quality of undergraduate education, and, as an example of how the university should concentrate its resources, is strengthening its research and teaching programs in cell biology. Sawhill also likes to pull on an old sweatshirt and jog around the N.Y.U. campus, stopping occasionally to pick up trash...
...bold action on long-range plans. That sense of crisis is ebbing rapidly, and gasoline lines are shortening drastically as a result of Saudi Arabia's decision to increase crude production. The less the feeling of urgency, the greater the opportunity for quarreling special interest groups to pick the program apart...
...administration was marred by the bloody suppression of student protesters in the capital's Tlatelolco Square in 1968; of cancer; in Mexico City. Though a diehard antiCommunist, Díaz Ordaz considered himself a moderate: "I know my course is correct when, like a submarine on sonar, I pick up noise from both the left and the right." Noise from the left grew deafening in protest to the Tlatelolco massacre, in which some say hundreds of students were slain (official death toll...