Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to find a name to fit the man who would exploit the misery and suffering of those less fortunate than himself by threatening to use them in massive marches, sit-ins and camp-outs, demanding speedups on his own terms to tremendous social and economic changes already afoot in the land...
...this movement afoot in the Christian society to abolish the expensive, massive and majestic cathedrals [Jan. 12]. In this day and age of constant stimuli, of incessant noise and overpopulation with pressing, vulgar crowds it is indeed unfortunate. Heretofore they represented one of the few remaining places where a man could go to think quietly, in relative safety-and be alone...
...counterattack with some peace games. As he said in a TV interview on New York City's Channel 13, he hopes the book will jog the country into a "more candid discussion of the possibilities of the elimination of war." The book implies that there are conspiracies afoot in the Government to perpetuate war. Lewin is indulging in a little conspiracy for peace...
Moreover, the U.S. has plans afoot to make things even more difficult for Hanoi. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's plan to lay an electronic barrier across the demilitarized zone aims at reducing Hanoi's ability to slip men and supplies into the South. The barrier is expected to run into Laos as well, which will vastly increase Hanoi's difficulties, since many infiltration routes make an end run around the North-South border and snake through Laos...
...August 1944, Morgenthau visited the European battlefront. In Whitehall and in Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF headquarters, he discovered with "misgivings" and "sharp disagreement" that plans were afoot to administer a conquered Germany not as a madhouse full of psychopathic killers but as a defeated nation in need of rebuilding. Like many other Americans, Morgenthau believed that only by destroying Germany's ability to wage war, through elimination of its industry, could the first steps toward "re-educating" the German people begin. The Nazis, he believed, were only surface villains (for them, Morgenthau preferred firing squads to war-crimes...