Word: affections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rockefeller was showing his own brand of courage by sticking to a manifestly unpopular course. When asked how the dispute would affect his chances for the Republican presidential nomination, he grinned and replied: "To hell with...
...must be consistent-not just for weeks or months or years, but for life. In a familiar pattern, many Americans start by doing too much in the mistaken hope of doing better. Exercise should lead to exhilaration, not to exhaustion or pain. Back aches, slipped disks and lumbago can affect people who overdo the famous Royal Canadian Air Force exercises. Even joggers can ask for trouble. "The distance some of them go scares me," says Dr. Richard Morrison, who presides over a heart-conditioning program for West Coast executives. "Long distances can make your knees arthritic or give you shin...
...National Security Council advises that it is not essential for the maintenance of the national health, safety, and interest to provide student deferments for graduate study in fields other than medicine, dentistry, and allied medical specialties ["allied specialties" are veterinary medicines, osteopathy, optometry], except that this recommendation does not affect existing regulations governing deferments for graduate students who entered their second or subsequent year of graduate school last fall...
This recommendation does not affect existing regulations governing deferments for graduate students who entered their second or subsequent years of graduate study in the fall of 1967. It does affect those students graduating from college this year and also those who entered their first year of graduate school last fall, since the regulation provides that the latter group were to be deferred for one academic year only...
...escaping from the camp. Some were picked up by helicopters and others worked their way back to Khe Sanh on foot, but Lang Vei had fallen, and with it ten of the Green Berets and 225 of the irregulars, all presumed dead. Its loss did not materially affect the defense of Khe Sanh itself, said a top U.S. officer, but "it is crucial to us in the sense that we want to know what's coming over the Laotian border." And he added: "We thought we could hang onto...