Word: resurrective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again." Americans leave home to pursue their fortunes elsewhere, in strange locations and foreign surroundings. And as soon as they are installed in the new situation they feel alien and misplaced, as though torn from some childhood Eden. So they move on, settling elsewhere in a vain effort to resurrect the shade of the trees on their childhood street and the sun-bright dust on the local ball field...
FLOWERS: This is a bad rap for President Nixon. We might as well resurrect President Johnson and impeach him posthumously for Viet Nam and Laos as impeach President Nixon for Cambodia. We might as well resurrect the memory of John Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs. President Truman in Korea...
...logical that Bok and Rosovsky did not want to resurrect the ROTC issue during the 1973-74 academic year because the events of 1969 were too vivid in their memories. CHUL did not want to take action because it also feared the consequences of opening a wound that had just begun to heal...
...questioning its intimate relationship to the pinnacles of power. Harvard likes to think of that relationship as a proper and natural one, one that serves the interests of the nation. Watergate, coming as it did on the heels of the Vietnam debacle, gave this university the perfect opportunity to resurrect its much-adored self-image as the home of respectable political leadership...
...with political democracy; it is an accepted political tradition in England for hecklers at political rallies to require candidates to respond to the concerns of public assemblies instead of delivering pre-packaged platitudes. An expression of hostility against Richardson would not bring peace to Southeast Asia. It would not resurrect the bodies or homes destroyed by the devastation of the Cambodian countryside. It would not compensate for a moratorium in government support for the protection of civil rights of minority groups and women, which Richardson oversaw as secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. A hostile reception could only...