Word: strong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point that the Haynsworth affair was being turned into a political attack on the President. Agreed on that premise, Nixon and his Attorney General decided to cast the issue as a test of presidential prerogative and party loyalty. The Senate Republicans who opposed Haynsworth and those who had strong misgivings about him were selected as the targets for the White House counterattack. They will be strongly urged not to oppose the President's nominee. If that does not work, political pressure, such as threats of holding up federally funded projects, will be applied...
...editor of the B. U. News. who founded and then tried to bust up Liberation News Service, who for a long time was the ideal Radical Voice for your TV show or street corner rally. He's still a newsman, but the news has changed: "Strong personal generators can be had for under $35... there is free music in the spheres, not to mention the public libraries." He's still moralizing, but the pitch is individualistic. "What you think is... of no bearing to another other than yourself.... What we all do, severally and independently of each other, will change...
...Then it seemed that they would either amend Mendelsohn's motion and recess or, if the amendment failed, recess immediately," Ptashne continued. "That would have been rational. But what actually happened was that Mendelsohn gave a strong speech, stressing that the Moratorium was a political and moral matter that should be discussed at the meeting. Our opposition panicked...
...full faculty, Department of Social Relations, expresses its strong objection to the methods by which the Joint Committee was established, some procedures by which it operated, and some of the statements used to justify its action in Dr. Stauder's case. We, therefore, request the Corporation to act favorably on the department's original recommendation of appointment as Lecturer for two years, pending establishment of a procedure more appropriate to the administration of justice in an academic community...
...should not push this point too far. There is much impatience with the war, but it is difficult to say of what nature. Is this impatience strong enough to tolerate prolonged campus disruption, to survive backlash from a "peace without honor," and permit the advocates of withdrawal in Vietnam to become the architects of a new society at home? A negative majority has been emerging in opposition to the war. Whether it will take a positive character and elect more Michael Harringtons remains undetermined...