Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found that Easterners would not run the nuclear risk for Mexico, 36% to 49%, while Westerners would, 51% to 36%; the explanation, presumably, is the obvious difference in geographical proximity. The young (under 35) tend to oppose use of nuclear weapons in the context of a Soviet-supported Cuban threat to Mexico by 43% to 40%, while their elders generally favor it by slightly more than the same margin. Those who voted for Humphrey in 1968 are against using nuclear weapons (44% to 42%). Nixon voters tend to favor them (46% to 41%) as a last resort, while Wallace backers...
...groups in particular posed the greatest threat to Faculty cooperation, but at the same time worked hardest to prevent a disastrous splintering of the Faculty. Widely termed the conservative and liberal caucuses, these two coalitions of like-mined Faculty members functioned throughout the crisis like combinations of political parties and traditional Faculty committees: sometimes campaigning actively among independent Faculty members in support of a position, at other times simply discussing the issues and feeding resolutions onto the meeting floor...
...DeMichele sent Tucker home with the first Crimson tally. Keeping hopes alive. Pete Varney and Ignacio singled to left to score and give Harvard its slimmest deficit at 6-2. But with two runners in scoring position, shortstop Bill Kelly fouled out to third to end the threat...
...this day too the President announced what had been a veiled threat to the select group of Sophomores and Freshmen called before him a few days previous: public charges were being formally lodged against the Freshmen for the destruction of University property. An investigation was to be launched by the Middlesex County Grand Jury...
...threat and the tone in which it was given alienated more students than it scared. The Chapel disturbances were taken up by an even larger number than before that evening. Thus, on the next day President Quincy retaliated by dismissing two students from the College--Trask of the Sophomores and Barnwell of the Freshmen...