Word: discarded
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While zealously pursuing foreign capital, Mobutu has tried to purge his country of foreign customs. As part of his "authenticity" campaign, Mobutu changed the name of his country to Zaire (meaning river). He decreed that all Zaireans discard Christian names for African ones. Throbbing tom-toms replaced the 21-gun salute as official greeting for visiting heads of state. In what was perhaps a further attempt to consolidate his personal power, last summer Mobutu banned Santa Claus...
...fond of showing guests to his office the plaque on his desk. "Behold the Turtle. He Maketh Progress Only When His Head Sticketh Out," the plaque read. Harvard's alumni appear to understand better than many administrators that if Harvard is to continue its progressive path, it must discard the myths that have persuaded it to withhold equal access from women. Contributions to Radcliffe 1973-1974 Programs Contributors Totals* Radcliffe College Fund Alumnae Annual Program Radcliffe-Harvard Scholarship Program Alumnae Gifts 5273 $461,684.81 127,001.66 Total $588,686.47 Club Scholarships 37 clubs $ 49,196.00 Parents Annual Giving Radcliffe-Harvard...
Except that Kent State, and reactions to it like those of the state jurymen who exonerated the Guard and indicted the students, suggest that the presumption isn't correct. It suggests that comparatively well-off people, even in the United States, are willing to discard the restraints of law when they think the dissent it makes possible threatens them enough. And that suggests that some radicals' rhetoric was right all along, that you can't divide freedom, that as long as this country's rulers are willing to kill black demonstrators or Cambodian peasants they'll necessarily be willing...
...committee leaders hope to reach a compromise with St. Clair. They are willing to discard the idea of taking depositions. Instead, the staff would interview witnesses, who would not be under oath but would be asked to sign their statements. Since these would be less formal than depositions, no cross-examination would be appropriate. Whether committee Republicans will accept that proposal is still in doubt...
...high school student essay is traditionally adopted as the Governor's official Thanksgiving proclamation, 17-year-old Mary Moran composed a sharp attack on "the absurdity of this holiday. Thanksgiving seems to be pretended, a farce, little more than an outdated tradition no one has yet found time to discard." Said a dismayed Governor Philip Noel: "I could not sign that as an expression of my thinking. Everyone in this country has something to be thankful for." He should not have been quite so dismayed, since Mary Moran's essay went on to express the wish that people would relearn...