Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unmollified by Nixon's blandishments, readied for this week's demonstrations even more ambitious than the Oct. 15 Moratorium. They would include rallies around the U.S., as before, but there could be as many as half a million marchers in Washington. If it seemed to be a scenario for confrontation, President Nixon had surely helped write the script as he penciled the Viet Nam address on his legal pads...
This is not the first time Americans have seen their President respond to dissent by ignoring the issues and seeking to discredit dissenters themselves. But the Nixon scenario has a new and dangerous twist. By initiating unnecessary and arbitrary "safety" measures, the Administration has generated a threat of violence where none had existed before...
Imagine the following scenario: With his wrists handcuffed behind his back, his legs bound tightly, his eyes blindfolded and his mouth gagged, John V. Lindsay is told he must rescue a drowning New York City (from the polluted Hudson no less). This comes close to describing the present situation. A more modern version of trial by fire cannot be found...
When 60 Yale students forced their way past a police cordon and held four administrators captive in the University Personnel Office Monday. ?hey set in motion Yale President Kingman Brewster's well-publicized scenario for handling student disruptions...
Wilson said Harvard's outlined procedure is "not a scenario, because these events tend to differ too much to decide anything ahead of time." The procedure says nothing about either a warning or a court injunction...