Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...political point of these confrontations is that they raise the psychological and financial price of waging the war and exterminating the Panthers. In Washington, these skirmishes were a failure within this context. In Cambridge, they would have been, too-were they not combined with trashing...
...literature contained a lot of quotes out of context," one said, "and even out of context, the ones from the left sounded better...
...Doug Miranda, a member of the Biack Panther Party, said "If you want peace, you got to fight for it. You should talk about Vietnam in the context of getting the pigs out of the black community. You have to pick up guns and begin to deal with that shit," he said...
...Prime Ministerial government was an arena for day-to-day survival in a contest of high stakes. "In the American Cabinet, they're officials. In the British Cabinet, each one of us is a potential prime minister. We could be dismissed by the PM at any time. In that context, you become tremendously aware of power relations...
Given this context, however. Dean May's plan still contains serious drawbacks which only compound the weaknesses of the current situation. The Cliffies who are submitting their rooming applications next Monday were qualified by placing in the low third of their classes in a lottery for rooms. As a result, only the bottom 160 from each class may apply to Harvard and those 160 must choose their roommates from the group. While mathematically impeccable. such a lottery ignores the system of suites at Harvard. This sole criterion of numbers means that girls cannot necessarily room with their friends but must...