Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furor grows, many Americans are seeking comfort in the claim that the massacre at My Lai was an isolated incident, unexplainable, and wholly out of character with...
...pride; and the nation's technological record in taming nature is one of the world's wonders. But Americans have insufficiently considered the possibility that this record is also tarred with betrayals of the nation's democratic ideals, and that no nation has a solitary, superior claim to virtue...
...seen as the first step toward sanity. Individuals are not identical with nations, but sometimes they are analogous. And thus it can be argued that only the nation that has faced up to its own failings and acknowledged its capacities for evil and ill-doing has any real claim to greatness...
Griffin added that the University's statement that it could not promise to hire 20 per cent black construction workers was insufficient. He said that despite Harvard's claim that qualified black construction workers in the Boston area number only five or six per cent of the total work force, the United Community Construction Workers in Boston could supply the necessary number of skilled...
...resolution adopted by the Committee on Research Policy said that the Brooks subcommittee "found no evidence for the claim that the kind of research proposed under the Project was inherently 'immoral' or 'repressive.'...[it found that] the Project has been basic research, unrelated to military programs except in the sense that such research relates to all programs involving human beings...