Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Campus Vietniks, dominating head lines with protest parades, teach-ins, draft-card burnings and fund drives for the Viet Cong, have made it appear that a majority of U.S. students share their views. Now, mainly in reaction to the protesters, overt campus activity in support of U.S. policy is growing. As a petition signed by 1,300 Harvard stu dents puts it, many students "wish to disassociate ourselves from that vocal minority which, distrusting American intentions, seeks to obstruct and mis represent American policy...
...business is on a contingent-fee basis," boomed the firm's senior partner, a highly spiced ham called "the Colonel." "We know that a bigger verdict is a bigger profit." Eager to share his arts, the Colonel proudly conducted a "tour of the plant...
...Smith's Rhodesia were to fall, South Africa's strategic position would seriously worsen. In return for possibly 70,000 more whites, it would have to share its northern border with a hostile black state. Further the success of sanctions against Rhodesia would make their use against South Africa more likely...
...people with incomes below this level, Gill has already handled 396 cases, now averages 80 a week. He has his share of criminal cases, including one now before the U.S. Supreme Court, but his big job is giving the poor new muscle in civil matters. For ex ample, one family of five, in a public-housing project, returned from a weekend trip to find their front door smashed. Officials charged $96 to fix the door, then threatened eviction when the family understandably refused to pay. Gill simply threatened to go to court, and the matter was dropped...
...humorously, interwoven. Argument is seldom pursued to a logical conclusion. In the midst of a passage on why divorce is necessary to preserve peace in society, for example, the sages will suddenly and bewilderingly leapfrog into a brief discussion of robbery and the right of the heathen poor to share in the harvest gleanings. Nineteenth Century Historian Isaac Jost compared the Talmud to a great mine, containing "the finest gold and the rarest gems, as well as the merest dross...