Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enterprise, a place where cooperation ends and bribery and velled coercion begin. As Mr. Balding says, ROTC students do not need bribery to donate blood. But offering extra merits for giving blood IS bribery, and informing students they will be marched to the donating station in a unit IS the coercion of conformity. Perhaps, as Mr. Balding contends, this is not "unusual pressure." But it is pressure nevertheless, and a kind of pressure neither the ROTC nor any other department of the University has a right to exert...
...made it clear in yesterday's editorial that not all instances of pressure occurred in any one unit of the ROTC, or even uniformly in all sections of a unit. Perhaps a share of the ROTC's blame should be transferred to the directors of the PBH blood drive. For if they suggested the bonus credit scheme, it seems that in their enthusiasm over this worthy project they have forgotten the limits of the ROTC position at the University. Nevertheless, the ROTC units could have turned down the merit bonus suggestion, just as they did a PBH proposal that...
...officials said that "three or four" of the 17 have also been subpoened for testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington next month. Altogether, U.S. marshals have summoned 12 Massachusetts professors to appear before the House unit...
...Army unit, for example, grants three merits to donors--merits being both marks of distinction and the only means of gaining sought-for privileges. The Navy excuses all donors from one week's worth of drill. These units and the Air Force are circulating sheets for donors to sign, thus in effect making it easier to single out the queasy for purposes of exerting the broadest possible pressure. Even classrooms have occasionally become pressure foundries. Singly, these measures may not be overly offensive; combined, they...
...hard-boiled major (Humphrey Bogart) in a mobile Army surgical hospital unit appears to spend more of his time pursuing Rookie Nurse June Allyson than attending to his job. At first, June retreats as Bogart advances. "I'm a pushover for only one thing-winning the war," she informs him. But soon she is commenting admiringly on his professional technique: "It was a beautiful job of surgery." He retorts, with a Bogart leer: "It's a beautiful job I'm looking...