Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entered the dining hall, was asked whether or not he was a senior. If he said that he was, he was handed a poll and asked to fill it out. Only about ten or fifteen seniors refused to take the poll--the other 529 filled it out regardless of political penchant. Once they had completed the poll, their name was checked off a master list in order to prevent repeats...
What does it mean when a student says he would rather go to jail than fight in Vietnam; when he would rather leave the country than be part of what he feels is an immoral, illegal war? Regardless of what he actually does, it shows the depth of his protest. Few people understand that students who are seriously considering going to jail are tortured by the choice they face. No one looks forward to spending the best years of his life behind bars. Of course at first he might think of going to jail as a heroic...
Like most South Africans, regardless of color and social status, Clive Haupt was stirred by Louis Washkansky's heart transplant. When Washkansky died, Garment Worker Haupt, 24, said to a neighbor: "I hope the next transplant succeeds." If the statement was obvious and unremarkable then, it soon gained poignancy. For the next transplant involved Haupt's own heart...
Washington Rumblings. Regardless of the enemy's motives, modus operandi, or misinformation, the U.S. high command believes it has the winning combination for the main-force, frontier type of war. It has only been in the past year and a half that U.S. forces have been able to put sustained pressure on the Communists, Westmoreland points out. Previously, the massive logistic base to supply the troops had to be established in a primitive country. Yet in that time, Westmoreland asserts that many of the enemy units have been pushed back to the frontiers, or prevented from crossing them. Large...
...hope for the future in Davis Cup competition, is also willing to risk losing his amateur status to play against the pros at Wimbledon. "I will play if I can get leave," says Ashe, currently serving as a lieutenant in the Army. "I'll stick my neck out - regardless of whether the U.S.L.T.A. backs Britain...