Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institute officials put their plan in action at the Master's garage on DeWolfe Street and Memorial Drive. About a hundred SDS protesters waited outside--word had circulated that McNamara might try to sneak out through here--with some pro-McNamara counter-demonstrators. Sure enough, the door opened and a car pulled out. In the commotion that followed, some students tried to force an open path, others blocked the way, and hundreds ran over to join the action. It took some time before they realized that the car's occupant was not Robert McNamara, architect of the war, but Graham...
McDonough said that much of the assembly's effectiveness will depend on its members' enthusiasm rather than on any specific action by him. "You can't reach out to people, grab them by the neck and ask them to get involved because they're being attacked on all sides by all sorts of organizations," he added...
Former correspondents of Time Magazine and the New York Times said their organizations did not publish their knowledge of the Bay of Pigs invasion even though they knew of the action beforehand...
...rare times that I totally disagreed with Nixon on a major foreign policy question. The Soviets had given us no help in Viet Nam. SALT was still substantially deadlocked. The Soviets had introduced combat personnel into the Middle East-the first such Soviet action in the postwar period...
...looking to buy a ton of gold worth about $12 million, and the market was being dominated by just a few large purchasers-including one unidentified German buyer and an unknown Canadian industrialist. About all that is certain is that small investors are now joining in the gold action...