Word: warrier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public certainly deserves better than recent articles in The New York Times dismissing Ford's extremely conservative 25-year House record as secondary in importance to his pragmatism and spirit of cooperating. An article last Sunday describing Ford as a "hard-line, Pentagon-oriented cold warrier" and citing his "stinginess toward domestic social programs" (including fights against Medicare, housing bills, minimum wage raises, mass transit funds, and the poverty program), goes on to declare that "in spite of his votes, his partisanship and his public appearance, Mr. Ford had the foresight and flexibility to make some necessary changes...
...neither a male chauvinist organization nor an exclusive final club," former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas tells a stunned commencement audience, "nor is Paul Freund." Honorary degrees go to miler Jim Ryus (". . .a credit to his race. . .") and City Councilman Alfred E. Velluci (". . . while a less hearty warrier could not have pursued his attempts to turn the Yard into a parking lot and the Lampoon into public favatories, he has persevered until his visions were a reality...