Word: spent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overtones, but because it really posed the problem: What would you do as a man to end the war in Vietnam? We all got silly then and pondered rather than the war, the concept of a talking bird, and then went off to study. But I had trouble, and spent most of the night wondering what I would be prepared to sacrifice to stop...
Hokanson said that during the past week he has spent 40 to 50 hours working against the petition. "I felt I was fulfilling my duty to the complaining students," he said...
Confronted with the subtle presence of 2600 National Guardsmen stationed in armories throughout the city and doubled police guards at all city high schools, members of the Weatherman faction of SDS spent the day in strategy meetings...
...father image-tall, shambling and folksy. Palme (pronounced Pal-muh), who is Erlander's protégé, is something else. The son of a wealthy, conservative Stockholm family, he was educated in an exclusive prep school, served two years in a cavalry regiment, and in 1947-48 spent what he recalls as "an absolutely wonderful year" at Ohio's Kenyon College, majoring in political science and economics and earning a bachelor's degree...
...Dying (Macmillan; $6.95). It began with a visit from four Chicago Theological Seminary students who wanted to do a study of life's greatest and final crisis. "When I wanted to know what it was like to be schizophrenic," Dr. Kübler-Ross told her callers, "I spent a lot of time with schizophrenics. Why not do the same thing? We will sit together with dying patients and ask them to be our teachers...