Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intelligent gun legislation, as Lyndon Johnson pointed out, "will not in itself end the violence. But reason and experience tell us that it will slow it down ?that it will spare many innocent lives." Whatever the cost, it would be worth it to reduce the risk of killing a Kennedy, a King?or a kid gunned down by an ignorant hunter...
Commencement speakers generally applauded today's activist students for their idealism and courage. "You have reminded us that our powerful nation runs the risk of becoming a callous and self-righteous, indeed, a bullying nation," declared Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn in an address at Fresno State. "You have warned us that our social and political institutions show signs of congealing into unresponsive and bureaucratic establishments-you have caught our affluent society in the act of becoming a smug society." Speaking at Connecticut's Fairfield University, Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams paid students a high compliment. "Through the scientific...
Fiscal responsibility--the theme of Cambridge City government in the next few years, even if the Council can at some time agree on the choice of a new city manager. Few councillors, especially those on the majority five, will want to risk being vulnerable targets for the charges of free-spending which they feel swung the election last time...
...know that it is hard to stay at work here," Lowell wrote. "It is harder to lie down under fire than charge at a greater risk. But if it is one's duty it must be done, and the soldier does not select his duty. He does what is considered best for the contingeent as a whole...
...obligation to insure that it is not the silent partner to racist employment practices in the construction of its present and future buildings. One can also say that it is the University Administration's obligation to act in such a way that students are not required to risk breaking laws and violating University regulations in order to bring about moral and rational behavior on the part of their institution. Chester W. Hartman '57 Assistant Professor of City Planning