Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tactical Blunder." Others, recalling the clumsy initial cover-ups attempted during the U-2 and Bay of Pigs disasters, were more circumspect. Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon called the whole affair a "tactical blunder" by the U.S. South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt, long a G.O.P. supporter of the President's Viet Nam policy, demanded to know why the Administration risked provocative patrols "when you already have more war on your hands than you can handle." Warned Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "We ought to keep our shirts on and not go off half-cocked until we know more...
Hardening Line. In the Pueblo affair, despite a general willingness to give diplomacy a chance to work, pressure mounted swiftly for a retaliatory strike. The Navy, some said, wanted to bomb the Wonsan MIG base. South Korean Premier Chung II Kwon urged a massive response, warning that "a lukewarm U.S. response would encourage the Communists to engage in another Korean War." But President Johnson was cautious, in part because his critics have accused him so often of overreacting during crises, notably-if unfairly -in the case of the Dominican Republic. His carefully measured response was also determined...
...Brown affair should be close. Boasting a 3-8 record and four straight losses, the Bruins shouldn't be much competition for anyone, but neither is Harvard this season...
...affair becomes the scandal of Whitehall, and Bogarde eventually slinks back to Oxford in disgrace. A year later, though, the old boys need him again and all is forgiven. Bogarde and York rejoin forces-he mechanically holding the solution to the Reds' most recent conundrum in his mind, she tenderly holding their illegitimate son in her arms...
...remain with the female to help in the extended rearing of the more slowly developing offspring, the "pair-bond," or love, came to Homo sapiens. At the same time, sexual relations became more rewarding to both male and female; the once brief mating season turned into a year-round affair...