Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equilibrium. But in a nation where the overwhelming majority favor either the status quo or orderly reform in the liberal tradition, mindless acts of violence by a self-appointed revolutionary elite only harden resistance to legitimate, necessary change. Says New York Mayor John Lindsay: "The use of explosives to tear down the system is self-defeating. It's cowardly. No democratic system can live that way. Society cannot permit...
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Constitution to protect people who are trying to tear down society." The resolution was defeated in the state senate...
Steven R. Bowman '72, a leader of NCG, said the paper was an appeal to all interested in educational change to conceptually tear down the existing educational structures and build from scratch...
Midnight Plumbers. When that happens, destruction is swift. Word immediately spreads among vandals, and "midnight plumbers" move in to tear out everything that can be sold. A Baltimore housing official describes the process: "On the first night, the building is looted. With the plumbing gone, the building is no longer habitable. The next night, or soon, the kids on dope slide in. Then the neighborhood's apprentice arsonist pays a visit." Such social disorder is infectious and it is often the prime factor that impels law-abiding ghetto dwellers to flight...