Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was bleak news, and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, once again the dominant spokesman for the nation's Governors, refused to accept it. He changed the subject from the peace dividend to what is known as the "growth dividend," resulting from the normal expansion of the U.S. economy. Rockefeller reported that a study commissioned by the Governors Conference Committee on Human Resources, which he headed, had produced some interesting figures. Never mind whether any money comes from the slowdown in Viet Nam; the study projected that federal revenues would increase by $15 billion in 1970, $16 billion...
...have been called home because Ho had suddenly begun to fail. These officials also believe it was more than coincidental that last week, only hours before Hanoi announced Ho's approaching death, North Vietnamese Negotiator Xuan Thuy hinted at a possible speedup of negotiations should the U.S. accept the principle of total withdrawal from South Viet...
...after a series of disasters on the battlefield and war exhaustion back home, the French were forced to leave Viet Nam. But Ho failed to secure at the conference table what his troops had won in combat. Under severe pressure from the Soviet Union, he was forced to accept control of only half of Viet Nam. In the South, a pro-Western government was set up?with heavy American assistance...
...find it difficult to accept that anyone in Mr. Kennedy's political situation would deliberately jeopardize his entire political future by acting as he did; had he not experienced shock at the time, could his actions have been deliberate? I am sure every reader must answer "no," or re-examine his ability to reason...
...session of the Paris peace talks last week, North Viet Nam's Nguyen Thanh Le loftily declared that rising American opposition to the war at home, combined with what he described as a near mutiny among U.S. troops in Viet Nam (see following story), would compel Nixon to accept the N.L.F.'s ten-point peace program. A pivotal point calls for unilateral U.S. withdrawal...