Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stronger than Tanks. That struggle grew more and more coordinated?and cunning?as the Czechoslovaks mobilized all their resources to baffle, stymie and frustrate their occupiers. The campaign was directed and inspired by radio stations that continued to operate secretly throughout the country?reportedly with transmitters provided by the Czechoslovak army?after the Russians had shut down the regular government transmitters. "We have no weapons, but our contempt is stronger than tanks," proclaimed one such station near Bratislava. The station suggested that its listeners "switch around street signs, take house numbers from the doors, remove nameplates from public buildings...
...Eastern Europe, Alexander Dubcek's two Communist allies were, if anything, stronger in their protest. "The attack on Czechoslovakia," said Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, "is a significant historical rupture in the relations among Socialist countries." Rumanian Presi dent and Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu called it "a great mistake, a grave danger to peace...
...Premier Chou Enlai. As Peking saw it, the whole episode was the result of a plot by the U.S. and the Soviets to divide up the world between themselves. Still, it was indeed an extraordinary experience to find Communist China condemning a country's loss of freedom in stronger terms than...
...members of the county medical societies. And the societies were exclusively white. For 29 years, the A.M.A. gently "urged" member groups to integrate, but few did. Smith was among the Negro doctors who embarrassed the A.M.A. by picketing its 1963 convention. The A.M.A. made its urgings a bit stronger. The Hinds County Medical Society was among those that yielded. It admitted Smith and two other Negroes, but many county societies still exclude Negroes for all practical purposes...
...only detailed plan offered so far this summer has come from the university's Alumni Federation, which expressed "unreserved pride" in Kirk, called for stern limits on protests and stronger student government. It also proposed the creation of a 15-man board of visitors to check out complaints about the operation of each of the university's 15 schools. The boards would include trustee-appointed alumni, students, administrators and outside specialists. But Kirk is cool even to that modest proposal...