Word: reasonably
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Actual Bench. However, Nixon's friends were not about to let him forget the lumps in his football record. First came Wallace J. "Chief" Newman, a full-blooded Shoshonean Indian who coached 155-lb. Tackle Nixon in 1933. Presenting Nixon with his first varsity letter, Newman explained: "The reason we waited so long was that we wanted him to get over his bruises." Then, to provide the proper setting for photographers, some 30 of Nixon's teammates carried out the "actual bench" on which the most successful second-stringer in Whittier's history sat out most games...
...this rare unanimity of opinion, however, it seems hardly likely that the U.S. will soon achieve what Nixon has promised to build toward: "an all-volunteer armed force." A main reason for this is that the Pentagon's basic support for the idea of a volunteer army is heavily qualified by worries that it will not work-while the draft has now delivered the bodies without fail for two decades...
...Another reason that military men would hate to see the draft go is that they think it provides them with manpower of greater quality as well as quantity. As Colonel Hays noted, volunteers, unpressured by the draft, tended to be "marginal" when the Army last tried them. But he was speaking of men who had grown up in the pinched and deprived Depression years. With the right inducements, a modern technological army should be able to attract technology-minded volunteers, educated and educable enough to cope with missile guidance, intelligence analysis, computer programming, medical care and other demanding jobs. Given...
...social order 'prefer' the uniform because of socio-economic compulsions-for the three square meals a day, for the relative egalitarianism of the barracks or the foxhole, for the chance to be promoted." Conceivably, Negroes could flock to the volunteer forces for both a respectable reason, upward mobility, and a deplorable one, to form a domestic revolutionary force...
...first time on record, not a single criminal was executed in the U.S. last year. The number of executions has sharply declined since 1930, when the Federal Government first began keeping track of them; in 1967, only two persons were executed. One major reason for the decline is growing public opposition to capital punishment, which has led some states to abolish it. More than 435 prisoners reside on death rows across the U.S. They received stays of execution last year either because of individual appeals or because the death penalty itself is under attack in the courts on constitutional grounds...