Word: contend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another segment of the Faculty has worked to keep the resolution off the regular Faculty docket and to vote on it at an informal "convocation" after the Faculty meeting. Led by Dorfman's group, these Faculty members contend that the Faculty should not take official stands on political issues...
...welfare assistance to the poor. During the Lindsay years, welfare has replaced education as the city's biggest single expense, now totaling $1.5 billion, or 23% of the $6.5 billion budget. The number of people on relief has doubled, to roughly 1,000,000, and although city officials contend that the rate of increase is now slowing appreciably, this is scant consolation to the wage earner of moderate means who knows that one out of eight New Yorkers is getting welfare help. "Work is the answer to an awful lot of the problems we have here," says Procaccino typically, "just...
...Harvard captain Keith Colburn can stay with Lokken and outsprint him. he may take some of the pressure from senior John Heyburn and junior Tom Spengjer. who must contend with Stevens. Roy Shaw and Dave Pottetti. who've shown steady improvement since the start of the season. could help here. too, but they will have to hold off Penn sophomores Karl Thornton and Eliot Rogers...
...example, get problems in algebra and trigonometry. On top of that, most apprentices must start work at half of a journeyman's pay and stay in training for three to five years, a period that many experts consider at least twice as long as necessary. Union officials contend that the system is vital to maintain standards of workmanship. "The apprenticeship program is so rigged that it would take a college-level black to get in," .says Assistant Labor Secretary Arthur Fletcher. "Why should a Negro who can be a college-trained engineer want to be a plumber...
Lexicographer Bergen Evans of Northwestern University believes that euphemisms persist because "lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable." It is virtuous, but a bit beside the point, to contend that lies are deplorable. So they are; but they cannot be moralized or legislated away, any more than euphemisms can be. Verbal miasma, when it deliberately obscures truth, is an offense to reason. But the inclination to speak of certain things in uncertain terms is a reminder that there will always be areas of life that humanity considers too private, or too close to feelings of guilt, to speak...