Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does The Times continue to distort the record on Vietnam? The reason, I think, is clear. The overthrow of Diem-which left a vacuum so great that 300,000 Americans and $2 billion a month seem insufficient to fill it-was due in no small part to the influence of The Times. A weak Department of State would not stand up to the pressure. The Times attacked the Diem Government directly in its editorials and inferentially in its news reports. President Kennedy became sensitive to the charge of supporting a 'Catholic' government in a 'Buddhist' country...
...Beta Kappa lectures at ten campuses in 1964. At this month's convention of the American Council on Education in New Orleans, Arrowsmith boldly laid his criticisms before 1,400 college trustees, presidents and deans. He accused them of selling out to "the research professoriate" through a "vacuum of leadership" and a "failure of nerve"-and drew warm applause...
...proper subject for burlesque, nor do I perceive sportive fun in Boyd's theological meaning. Any candidates he finds for his saloon conversions will forget the pith of his message when they sober up in the morning, but Boyd will still be hung over in his spiritual vacuum...
...renewal scheme depends not only on the strength of the plan worked out by the City but also the amount of support it commands within the community -- the Library Corporation, local businessmen and residents, and the University. In Cambridge, such plans are often worked out in a vacuum; private interests stand aloof and, when the plan is released, size it up from their own perspective. If they dislike it, they pounce on it both privately and publicly. The results often satisfy...
...least make some attempt to offer the jobs to people outside the University. After all, the unemployed in Cambridge and Boston are primarily the unskilled--those who cannot type, or do research, or any of the other kinds of work that are now drawing students who used to vacuum rooms. The University could do the community a service by hiring them...