Word: reclaiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, his other criteria for illegal political action (particularly "treachery") reclaim for the Committee its right to thought control. Ichord has promised to expose every revolutionary group as well as those who "condone" this violence. This means, he emphasizes, concentrating on SDS and Afro-style campus agitators. William Colmer (D-Miss.), a member of HUAC, added that he was especially concerned about "Communists working with young people in colleges and even in high schools...
Most universities would jump at the chance of getting a top presidential aide on their faculty, especially when his academic credentials are as lustrous as those of Walt Whitman Rostow. But when Rostow sought to reclaim his post as a professor of economic history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he left eight years ago to join John Kennedy, he was turned down. The most obvious explanation, that Rostow was blackballed for his hard line on Viet Nam, caused the New York Times's James Reston to write last week: "Is a man to be punished for beliefs sincerely...
Meanwhile, both parties will be seeking new foundations on which to enlarge their strength. They will have a common target among the young. Both parties must seek to reclaim the Deep South and to win back the disenchanted on the right and left elsewhere as well. In the process, the Republicans and Democrats might find some of the social remedies that both major candidates promised when they repeatedly pledged themselves to lead the nation and re-store national unity...
...April 22, despite a college-wide petition urging the Lampoon to let the Russians keep the bird, and nation-wide press-coverage, the Lampoon announced that arrangements were almost completed to reclaim the bird. According to United Press International, John Goetlet, "handsome heir to one of New York's greatest real estate fortunes and treasurer of the Harvard Lampoon, spent a half hour explaining the subtleties of American college humour to Tsarapkin in his Park Avenue Headquarters. Asked by reporters to smile he replied, 'I am unsmiling...
...majority of the marchers will be black, there will also be American Indians, Appalachian whites and Mexican-Americans led by California's César Chávez, who organized the successful Delano farmworkers' strikes, and New Mexico's Reies Tijerina, whose abortive attempt to "reclaim" land last year made him a latter-day conquistador in Spanish-American eyes...