Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research contracted by professors through the Research Contract Office, is unclassified and publishable. But there can be little doubt that some professors' work--even if the public sees it--contributes at least marginally to the decision-making process in Washington. In that town, politicians and bureaucrats, not idealistic academics, pull the most weight, and they can do what they want with the research they have sponsored...
...office of America is to liberate," said Emerson, "to abolish kingcraft, priestcraft, caste, monopoly, to pull down the gallows, to burn up the bloody statute-book, to take in the immigrant, to open the doors of the sea and the fields of the earth." No nation has ever undertaken a similar task, and it is hardly surprising that the American path has often been strewn with monumental confusions as well as good intentions. Wilsonian idealism did not make the world safe for democracy in World War I; it wound up driving disillusioned Americans into an isolationism that probably helped pave...
...village square, the tree-trunks are no longer white-washed. The police have painted them blue and white, the national colors. Every house is adorned with a new flag-pole. Policemen come by to tell the people when to raise the flag, and when to pull it down again, for the frequent nationalist celebrations proclaimed by the Junta. A goat is spread asleep in front of an old stable, under-neath a flag. Thank God the Greek national colors are beautiful...
...real heroes in my life," the oilman gushed. "We went two rounds together in Saratoga in 1923, and he convinced me I would never make a boxer. He knew just how much I could take." Countered Gentleman Jack: "On the contrary, Paul, I didn't pull my punches at all." With that, the two old hams squared off once again for the photographers...
...should be the individual's choice as to whether he still wants to be interviewed. If the recruiter is guilty of was crimes in the minds of enough students to warrant his banishment from campus, he would face enough student apathy to his recruiting to convince him to pull out on his own. Russell Merriam...