Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he said things that needed saying-and the majority of Americans doubtless found his arguments unexceptionable-Nixon probably won few converts from the ranks of the disaffected. Hard-core radicals, such as the Marxist-oriented Students for a Democratic Society (estimated nationwide membership: 6,000), for example, reject all such rational formulations. Negroes know that agitation in the '50s and '60s has prompted more progress than did reasoned argument. Test cases frequently come from broken laws. At many universities in the past two years, it was clear that authorities agreed to reforms after, rather than before, upheavals...
Sixteen Harvard biologists sent a letter to various Senators asking them to reject Water Hickel as the new Secretary of the Interior. The letter said that Alaska governor Hickel was now qualified and that his presence would be "a serious liability" to conservation efforts...
...Divinity School student-Faculty committee with three black members prepared a special report for release, but the school's nine black students said they would reject the conclusions of the still-unpublished report. The committee had studied plans for recruiting more blacks and helping the School play a bigger role in black churches. The black students said that the committee was "unrepresentative" because the three blacks listed as members had not been consulted about the conclusions...
...here and now, severance is a heinous punishment. The university should grant amnesty at this time because its function never was to punish. And these are extraordinary times, when we cannot reject members of our community. We will just have to get along with one another...
Lawyers for the Corporation said they would formally ask the Cambridge courts to drop criminal charges against demonstrators arrested in University Hall, but court spokesmen said that the trial judge would have power to accept or reject the request. Cambridge officials said they would urge the court not to drop the charges...