Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dynamics of student discontent have obviously produced an ominous rise in the frequency and intensity of protest. Now there are unmistakable signs that it has also produced something else: a growing feeling throughout the nation that the rebels have at last gone too far. If there was one word that summarized the feelings of much of the U.S. toward the radicals last week, it was: "Enough...
...pride, many felt a sudden pang when they thought of him on Sunday night. Thirty years on the stage, sometimes in the glare of the footlights, sometimes in silhouette, eleven years of absolutism, long tempered by his own resolve, later by anarchy, and this exit lacking greatness, the one word forever in his mouth and in his heart...
...Israelis to withdraw from the occupied territories before a settlement is achieved." Unsatisfied with that, one Jewish leader angrily warned: "Don't think you can get our support, Mr. Secretary, for any kind of imposed settlement now being cooked up." Flustered and angry, Rogers ended the meeting. Word drifted back to the Jewish community that both he and President Nixon were "vexed" that their word had been challenged...
...come to that in America, yet, but what has happened at Harvard this week, in my opinion, is an example of what can happen to a nation when moral judgment is suspended on behalf of those dissident few who mock the foundations of the society in word and act. Carole Comeron Shaw (Graduate student's wife...
Maybe "work" is the missing word. Back in prepermissive days, I was a Freshman Dean at Harvard. Rules were simpler then: if a student failed, he was expelled. If expelled, he was readmitted only after three or more months of hard (but compensated) labor, such as digging ditches for the Boston Edison Company, or the Boston Elevated Railway Company...