Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deepening economic chill, Britain has been swept with merger fever. Over the past few months, major deals have been made in aircraft and steel. Others are afoot in chemicals, electronics, autos and oil. But when the giant London-based British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd., joined in with a bid for Yardley & Co. Ltd., one of Britain's biggest and best-known perfume and cosmetics makers, all it got was a lather of dissent...
...Malacanang to discuss a side trip to Viet Nam. Westmoreland strongly recommended it as a morale booster for U.S. troops and the South Vietnamese as well. Johnson agreed, decided to schedule it the very next day, when he had a full program and nobody would suspect what was afoot. In the event of a security leak, the President said, the whole thing would be canceled-right up to the moment of landing...
...Thalia Massie, a moody and introspective woman of 20, had grown up, like her husband, in the starched proprieties of the Old South. Whether her honor needed avenging was a question that was never satisfactorily answered. On that September night, as Thalia Massie was making her solitary way home afoot, she was attacked by five "Hawaiian boys," brutally beaten and-so she claimed-raped. Her body bore evidence of the beating (a jaw broken in two places), but none of sexual assault...
While whatever is afoot in Moscow and Hanoi remains unclear, it is obvious that in the U.S. the climate over Viet Nam has changed considerably. The sharp edges of dissent have blurred a bit, and the extreme opposition-both left and right-has grown less raucous. In such an atmosphere, Lyndon Johnson should have more room to maneuver...
...Mallet Club, unrivaled at home, ignominiously defeated eight straight times by London's Hurlingham Croquet Club. "Do you need a coach?" inquired the British captain. "We need a coach-and-four," groaned a U.S. player. But the colonials have just begun to fight. Back home, plans were already afoot to form a kind of U.S. Olympic team of malleteers, including all the croquet greats: Composer Richard Rodgers, Actors David Wayne and Gig Young, and as spiritual leader, a man described as "a living croquet legend in his lifetime," Ambassador W. Averell Harriman...