Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early fifties provided the most significant issue of the post-war decade. the Communist witch-hunts engendered by the late Senator McCarthy. The University found itself in the midst of the controversy and no one connected with Harvard voiced stronger support for academic freedom than did the CRIMSON. In 1949 the paper published the first of its annual extensive reports on academic freedom...
...view of many adults, youth has less to protest about this year than last. Some U.S. troops have been withdrawn from Viet Nam, and presumably more will follow. ROTC is being reduced in status at some schools. Students in many places are gaining a stronger voice in university affairs. Yet to many young people, the pace of change is too slow. The war, the draft, racial tension and poverty still linger. Each class of incoming freshmen in recent years has been more militant than the last; this year's is expected to be no different...
...stronger impetus toward new ventures has come from the insurers' feeling that their loans were helping other businessmen to grow wealthy while the insurance companies took most of the risk. As a result, insurers are no longer content merely to lend money for the construction of apartments, shopping centers and other structures, and collect a fixed-interest return. They demand a share in the ownership and management, and a large slice of the profits...
Beyond new statutes and energetic reinforcement, the nation needs another, stronger weapon: public indignation. There is not nearly enough of that in the U.S. No other Western, industrial country in modern times has suffered criminal abuses on such a scale. America's porous, pluralistic and permissive society offers extraordinary opportunities, chances to hide and to advance, for the enterprising and imaginative criminal. But, most fundamentally, U.S. society helps the criminal by toleration (occasionally even admiration) and by providing a ready market for his services. Illicit gambling thrives because of the popular demand for it. Politicians of questionable integrity remain...
...moves so easily, with such knowing grace; she walks in metric beauty, through her mellowing lover's elegant world-through it and beyond, at last, to younger, stronger, more passionate arms. But then she goes back to the other...