Word: statements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Young People's Socialist League (YPSL) in a statement titled "Support the Moratorium." denounced Nixon's attempts to "buy off the anti-war sentiment in America," and asserted that "the moratorium . . . not only affords us a chance to protest United States policy in Vietnam, but also the chance to examine . . . United States foreign policy in general...
Kochubiyevsky, in his final, futile statement, was repeatedly interrupted by the judge's orders to "desist from engaging in anti-Soviet propaganda." Concluded the engineer: "I am convinced that this trial will explain much." Kochubiyevsky's sentence: three years at hard labor...
...enthusiasm. He must not stumble in his grammar or pronunciation; ambitious junior officers understandably devote many idle hours to perfecting their delivery. A briefing may begin with a comment intended to jolt the audience into paying attention, or at least staying awake. It might, for example, start with the statement: "We have won the war in Viet Nam." Or, depending on the audience and the need for additions to the military budget: "We are losing the war in Viet Nam." If the briefer is in the Air Force, he makes three points-no more, no less. If he has only...
...must clearly and simply dissent from the value hierarchy represented here (and again in the fourth point, below). Such reasoning manifests a series of traits one would hope it is the office of a Faculty of Arts and Sciences to destroy. If the matter were not so serious, this statement would stand as nothing more than a monument to the possibilities of men's pretensions...
...those who opposed the resolution were sincere in their protestation that they wanted to make the "most effective" statement against the war, they might have arranged some better way of putting themselves on private record once the formal vote was past. As it was, the slapstick convocation only reinforced the sense of disorder and confusion. If the turbulent meetings of the last nine months have shown nothing else, they have proved how much the Faculty needs sweeping legislative reform...