Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee chose to accept the advice of the Thursday mass meeting and sanction militant picketing in support of paying workers on strike. On Sunday night, in contrast, it chose to disregard the meeting's resolutions...
BOND: It is part of the human condition, but it can be controlled. Government is the force to control it. If government doesn't sanction it, its manifestations will be less severe...
...integrated, blood would flow in the streets. White people wouldn't tolerate sitting next to a black. But the government said the counters would integrate. As resentful as white people were and as much as white people disliked black people, blood didn't flow. There was no official government sanction for it. I think people behave as they are allowed to behave. If you don't sanction anti-social behavior, then you're not going to encourage...
Inviting Criticism. Douglas' 97-page volume is a broadside. "Violence has no constitutional sanction," he writes, "but where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response." England's King George III, Douglas continues, was "the symbol against which our founders made a revolution now considered bright and glorious. We must realize that today's Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution...
...third question-credit for field work or work in the arts-May said, involves official sanction of what is already common practice. The 1214 independentstudies approved this year include yoga exercises and illustrating children's books...