Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also harder, because college officials weren't used to student anger, and they fought back with police truncheons and disciplinary action. Now demonstrations have been accepted; they're almost a part of the system. When the students block his office doorway, Bok works at the Kennedy School until they leave. It is all very decorous--those kids will have their protest, pay them no mind. Kind of ruins the point of the protest, doesn't it? Unless of course, you care more about how the protest feels than what it does...
...drumbeat of the selfishness song, which goes something like: "No more sweaty rallies, no more LSD: Society owes a turbo Porsche to me, me, me." Even if we accept this colossal generalization with its implicit comparison to our generation, we must still wonder whether our immediate forebears weren't more honest than we: at least they didn't make the fitful pretense of social consciousness...
...could take a look at some of the particulars in the Westmoreland trial, in out-takes from your taped interview with (former U.S. National Security Adviser Walter) Rostow. Rostow appeared to refute the hypothesis of "The Uncounted Enemy." Why weren't those comments included in the broadcast...
...previously undefeated first freshmen weren't however--the Yardlings finished five seconds behind Princeton. The third varsity edged Yale, and the second frosh likewise downed Princeton...
...Seaver and his 258 National League victories were impressed by the surroundings, they weren't showing...