Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to argue Dean Monro's statement about the University's position on drug use. What else could a dean's office say about an activity that is illegal under both state and federal law? There is some objection to his use of the word 'stupid,' but he may be more right in using it than he knows. If anyone manages to get himself caught smoking marijuana by Harvard officials, he can just as easily get himself caught by the police, and they are particularly unpleasant about this sort of offense -- it makes headlines. For a federal conviction there...
...hard-boiled Communist newsmen. Through a curtained doorway in Hanoi marched a husky American prisoner of war clad in purple and cream striped pajamas. He looked healthy enough, except for his eyes; as the strobe lights winked, they remained as fixed and flat as blazer buttons. Then, at a word from his captors, the American bowed deeply from the waist like a Manchurian candi date, repeating the abject gesture in all directions about a dozen times. At an other command, he turned on his sandaled heel and marched stiffly from the room...
Fulbright watered down the resolution so drastically during committee hearings that Johnson passed the word to let it die without coming to a Senate vote. Johnson still hopes to steer the generally responsive Latinos toward making the historic decision for the common mar ket, but the outcome will now depend more on his power of personal persuasion and less on the power of the dollar...
...already has an enrollment of 546 students, mostly children of Oral Roberts' "Pentecostal Holiness" followers. And Gra ham predicted a vast spread of religious education in the U.S., with O.R.U. blazing the path, then thundered: "If this institution ever moves away from faith in the Bible and the word of God, then let us pronounce a curse on it." "Amen," roared the crowd...
...Left -- composed of assorted socialists, Communists, Trotskyites, Maoists, Castroites and others, both old and new--has worked along with and given some leadership to confrontation politics, but this latter development has had many participants who are not "left" in any traditional sense of the word and its essential theme is not that of the ideological Left. The recent evolution of the Left is a separate phenomenon of its own; and so is confrontation politics. That the Left evolved into new forms at the same time as "confrontation politics" arose has resulted in a confusion between the two. Confrontation politics deserves...