Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon supposedly made certain promises, one of them being a guarantee to Strom Thurmond that he could name a Justice to the Supreme Court when the opportunity arose. If a quid pro quo arrangement was in fact agreed upon, to withdraw Haynsworth's name might lose key Southern support for the 1970 congressional elections, and for the presidential race...
...amazing thing is how they could accept our statement and reject a moderate statement supporting the day of protest," Ptashne said. (The Faculty amended the original Moratorium resolution-proposed by Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science-to say that the Faculty "recognizes that October 15 is a day of protest" rather than "affirms its support of the day of protest...
...even granting those fears were sincere, the Faculty's handling of the motion on the Vietnam Moratorium is difficult to understand. The Moratorium resolution may have seemed tainted with political content, but the Moratorium itself has gained such widespread support that a mere expression of "support" could hardly have been viewed as a precedent. If the Boston City Council finds this protest worthy of endorsement, and three local universities have cancelled classes to observe it, then the Faculty should have been able to suspend its long-guarded neutrality...
...overwhelming vote in favor of the Moratorium was to accept Doeringer's amendment. And Lipset argued that the anti-war resolution would seem to be a failure if 30 or 40 per cent of the Faculty felt compelled to vote against it-even though they support its aims...
...just have to be able to do your thing well. Many members of the University community read Crimson editorials (notice we didn't say they agreed with them), and they do have an impact on the real world. You have a good chance of persuading a majority to support you but all is not lost if you don't. You can always write an "On the Other Hand" editorial stating your own position, no matter how deviant (miscreant...