Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While agreeing that only use of police could get the demonstrators out, Bethell said that the administration failed to "rationalize [its decision] to an offended community...
...distinct sets of reasons for seizing, striking, occupying, acting--radicalism and romanticism. The two sets are easily identifiable: the first is associated with words like "demands," or "grievances" or "conscience," the second is associated with any words other than "reasons," with words which deny cause-and-effect. I use the word "reasons" only because I have no other, and that should reveal to you the type of person...
...against smoking, while the Department of Agriculture annually pays out $1,800,000 in price-support subsidies to tobacco farmers. To enlarge tobacco exports, which contribute about $500 million a year to the U.S. balance of payments, Agriculture also promotes overseas sales. The Public Health Service encourages smokers to use filter cigarettes, but the Federal Trade Commission will not permit cigarette advertising that even faintly suggests that filters are preferable...
...little selfdiscipline. For centuries Britain enjoyed overwhelming economic and political power for its size, a situation that has left the country accustomed to living beyond its shrunken means. Doubt has taken deep hold that any government-or policy-will overcome the problem. Britain long ago stopped making full use of either its individual resources or its technological know-how. Only if it succeeds in using both will its economy gain the strength to climb out of the present morass...
Police power is no substitute for justice. The imposition of old truths upon the new realities of our contemporary world inevitably lead to grotestque distortions. Our sense of justice and the responsible use of power are usually two of the most seriously maimed values in such an unfortunate conflict...