Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, Harvard liberals take up afternoon causes--like PBH projects or running art sales for the benefit of Mississippi Negroes. A few work for liberal candidates like John F. Kennedy or Kevin White. But primarily, there is a breakfast-table-argument aura to it all. No one bleeds...
...will be a billion Chinese on the mainland, armed with nuclear weapons, with no certainty about what their attitude toward the rest of Asia will be." Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, a former college economics teacher, echoed the charge. Pundit Walter Lippmann adduced a more directly racial argument with a proposal that the U.S. "pull back from the Vietnamese mainland to continental islands inhabited by Western white men"-namely, Australia and New Zealand...
...Administration resolution on Viet Nam. The advice was routine enough: remind the Republicans, especially Rockefeller and Ohio's James Rhodes, of their support at previous Governors' meetings. Reagan showed the message to Romney, and then had it copied for reporters. Romney used it as an argument against approval of any Viet Nam resolution...
...value of the military alliance tends to get lost in argument, and in an effort to achieve the harmony it needs, the NATO Council voted last December to authorize a study of the impact of world politics on NATO since 1949. The need for the study is all too obvious. In the current climate of bickering, many European nations that cannot agree among themselves still have trouble accepting continued American domination of NATO. The talk runs more and more to a fifty-fifty U.S.European partnership. Such an arrangement would be eminently satisfactory says Spaak. "But it is difficult to bring...
Instead of a blast, however, the Tory convention was an unmuzzled bore. Convened before BBC television cameras at the Top Rank entertainment center in the beach resort of Brighton, it proved to be the most powerful argument for picking up a good book since the advent of televised wrestling. The Tory high command, following the example of Party Leader Ted Heath, sat solemnly on the speaker's platform, heavy-lidded, hard-shelled and heartburned. Little about the party leaders suggested that they were capable of standing up to the slogan emblazoned on the rostrum: PUT BRITAIN BACK...