Word: public
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep Americans' tempers from fraying further, and to demonstrate to the world that the U.S. public was solidly behind him, Carter last week made a considarable display of firmness. At breakfast Tuesday with congressional leaders, he declared that the U.S. was interested in a peaceful solution?but not at any price...
Finally, ETS adopted the game-show competition format, capitalizing on the American public's love of sporting affairs...
...punishing students who actively protested University involvement in the war and other questionable activities, this punishment being legitimatized by the collaboration of their student peers on the committee. Despite Dean Epps's continued attempts to breathe life into the monster (perhaps in the hope of vindicating his public position of neutrality throughout the war period), the students of Harvard and Radcliffe have never repudiated the student activism of the late sixties by a docile acceptance of the CRR. And, as Professor Wald said last spring, "I hope to God they never will." Bob McCoy...
...announcement of Burke's penalty less thane one minute into the game proved to be a harbinger of things to come. By the time Dave Conners raised the fists of uncountable Crimson rooters with his overtime goal, the high-pitched hum of the Walter Brown public-address system had become a part of the lives of the 2900-plus who enjoyed the game...
Luckily for the Crimson, the final time they heard the public address system's obscene whine, they didn't care what it sounded like. "The final Harvard goal was scored by Dave Conners...