Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final result may depend largely on how strongly the American public as a whole is feeling about "college unrest." If voter sentiment is highly anti-student, Congress--which can be extraordinarily sensitive to public feeling on certain issues--may well throw moderation to the winds, and replace it with tougher legislation...
...President Pusey testified before a Congressional committee considering tougher Federal legislation against college rioters. Pusey urged the committee to let the colleges handle their troubles by themselves...
...tougher the crackdown by authorities became, the greater the sympathy aroused by the protesters. One old man was seen smiling and waving a flower at demonstrators, and many homeowners offered garden hoses to thirsty marchers. Seventy-eight representatives of long-established student organizations called for continuing the unofficial development of the park, a course supported by 12,719 of almost 15,000 students voting in a referendum. Chancellor Roger Heyns refused. A boycott of classes until the Guard was withdrawn was called by 177 of the 1,000-member faculty...
...present method of giving a candidate all of a state's votes, no matter how small his popular plurality, reformers also reduce the bargaining power and importance of state party organizations. The Senate, traditionally more sensitive to states' rights than the House, is likely to provide a tougher battleground than the lower chamber...
...also obliged to propose alternatives to policies that they condemn? Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti believes that "the foremost contribution of intellectuals is dissent. To be opposed to the atomic bomb is not exactly negative thinking." It is also easy. The harder task is to be constructive about problems that are tougher because they may be soluble...