Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those who engaged in this attack on the liberties of their fellow students have no place in our community, for they subvert our one basic tenet: that freedom to think and speak the truth as we each see it is inviolate. We must demand their expulsion from our University...
...chief tenet of the doctrine, in the words of a White House aide, is that the U.S. will "reduce our presence while maintaining our commitment." Already the American troop level in Asia has been reduced by nearly a quarter of a million men. Last week, en route to Saigon for a personal inspection of the Viet Nam war zone, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced that by midsummer U.S. fighting men will no longer seek ground combat in Viet Nam. Because they will still provide air, artillery, logistic and security support for South Viet Nam's army, American G.I.s...
...problem." They can hardly avoid it. In 1970, the cause that once concerned lonely crusaders like Rachel Carson became a national issue that at times verged on a national obsession; it appealed even to people normally enraged by attacks on the status quo. With remarkable rapidity it became a tenet in the American credo, at least partially uniting disparate public figures ranging from Cesar Chavez to Barry Goldwater and New York's conservative Senator-elect James Buckley...
Aimed at the Midriff. Pisar argues that increased economic contacts with the West will work important political changes on the Communist system. He rejects the old cold war tenet that trade with the East will enhance its military capacity; he points out that the Soviet Union has attained nuclear parity with the U.S. anyway. "What we sell them goes to their midriffs, not their biceps," says Pisar. "Trade will take the fuses out of their ideology." He believes that "increased trade helps the East to evolve into consumer societies, that a 'fat' Communist is a peaceful Communist...
...earlier days at this baccalaureate service Harvard presidents have tried first to suggest this world and have then reiterated again a requirement to work for it, a basic tenet in our enduring liberal tradition. Life outside the academy was probably no more easy then than now, nor did my predecessors have any illusions about the difficulty and the only limited chances of what they were asking. But finally in a deep intent to be helpful they would go on to say, quite unashamedly, "Go forth and be strong...