Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...account, he was just another warhawk when he took a senatorial excursion to South Vietnam, where--by simply keeping his eyes open--he found out things which completely contradicted officials dogma. Yet there is something in Young's attitude that makes the quick-change act incredibly hard to swallow. He is skeptical not only about the administration's Vietnam policy, but about the administration, period. And if, like certain other Senate liberals, Young avoids attacking the President directly, he more than makes up for it in his comments on the Secretary of State...
Maybe he fails to take all the subleties of the Vietnamese situation into account. But if a simplified understanding of the issues can lead dozens of Longs and Fords to support escalation, there is no reason why it shouldn't produce a few Youngs in opposition...
...sees himself as having run an institutionalized, intellectual organization, admitting that maybe a circus is what Young Dems needs to camouflage, if not to cure, its anemia. He speaks for himself as a transitional leader, presiding over the club as it adapted itself to its new size and bank account. The transition, he implies, is up to the new president, Larry Seidman, to define and complete...
...back 82, including a twelve-can carton of tooth powder and a soda-fountain dispenser of headache powder. Harris conceived a toiletries pack, sold the idea to hotels as a convenience for guests. He eventually signed up 4,000 hotels, sold more to banks looking for new-account come-ons, others to airlines (which give the packs to grounded passengers). The Guest Pac Corp. also sells packs to the Salvation Army and the Red Cross for disaster-area vise and for distribution to Viet Nam wounded in Army hospitals...
...plan of a campaign that took 150,000 men from the Channel to the Danube in what many historians consider the greatest military march of modern times. Though this book is burdened by a poor English translation, French Novelist-Historian Claude Manceron succeeds in providing a meticulously documented account of the 1805 campaign. And his hour-by-hour reconstruction of Austerlitz, Napoleon's most brilliant military success, presents a compelling, page-by-page study as well of the man who was an incomparable military genius...