Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speak with the certitude of geologists promising an unfrozen future-as this or any week's news suggests. The Administration claims that Moscow may soon have the capability to devastate the U.S. with a formidable new battery of nuclear missiles. Yet any attempt to counter the Soviet threat (if it is real) would divert scarce funds from urgently needed domestic programs. Of course, the argument goes, social ills may speedily be cured as soon as the Viet Nam war is ended. But when will that...
...seven other announced mayoral candidates to drop out in his favor. Wagner will have to face his rivals in the June 17 Democratic primary. His chances are no worse than those of Lindsay in the G.O.P. primary, where two conservative Republicans are challenging the mayor. Wagner presents a threat to Lindsay's renomination by the Liberal Party, which provided Lindsay's margin of victory last time. The Liberals have backed Wagner in the past, and at their convention this week, there will be strong labor-union backing...
...Korns, a teaching fellow: "This body repudiates the right of the Harvard Corporation to close our University." The chair asked for ayes, and the roar that followed affirmed forever that those seven men we do not know and who do not know us could never again make such a threat...
...school's Student Cabinet adopted unanimously last night a resolution which "repudiated the implied threat of the Corporation to close down our University" and "calls for the dissolution of the Corporation in its present form and its replacement by a body representative of the Harvard community...
Rabbits, we are told, have mercifully been provided with short memories because they are so constantly prey to the threat of being killed. They would go mad with fear and despair if they could remember the past. Men seldom realize it, Kurt Vonnegut suggests in his latest novel, but they have more in common with rabbits than they like to think. Except that men forget on purpose, and are a prey to one another...