Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very delightful to have an open space as it now exists"--a space, he said, that can be "viewed and enjoyed by all who walk by." However, the fence that surrounds the property is backed up in many places by tall bushes and creeping ivy that prevent one from getting a clear view of the area. The Mt. Auburn St. side is completely obscured, as is the northern half of the Plympton St. frontage...
...show that they are just plain Americans after all (see The Presidency, page 18). No one could reach the White House while campaigning from behind a bulletproof glass. Just hours after his near escape, Gerald Ford was emphatically and calmly telling newsmen that "this incident under no circumstances will prevent me or preclude me from contacting the American people as I travel from one state to another and from one community to another...
Loaded Guns. Governor Rhodes testified that he went to the campus mainly to get firsthand information on the disturbances. A former Guard sergeant, Michael Delaney, said that Rhodes had angrily ordered officials in to prevent even as many as two students from walking together on campus. Del Corso and Canterbury said it was the responsibility of troop unit leaders to decide whether guns should be loaded; the unit commanders testified that they had only followed orders from above. The most common defense of the Guardsmen was that students were rushing them just before they retaliated with gunfire. "I felt...
...change their sexual orientation" could still be diagnosed as ill under a new category called "sexual orientation disturbance." In fact, it was an awkward compromise by a confused and defensive profession. But gay activists treated it as a clear victory. "The substitute category," they announced, "has been created to prevent a few psychiatrists who make careers of changing homosexuals from being drummed out of their profession." The following spring the A.P.A. membership voted 5,854 to 3,810 to endorse the change at least partly in response to the gay argument that the "sick" label gave support to those denying...
...people come to Harvard grimly determined to give up all the horsing around they did in high school in order to devote themselves piously to four years of serious academics. Others arrive for freshman week just as determined to prevent academics from interfering with four years of serious horsing around. Most people are worried about whether they'll be able to pull it off, all alone, without guidance, without friends, without parents. Harvard has tried to make sure that no matter what your attitude, and no matter what your fears, you will have someone to help you handle it--your...