Word: asking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though they may not have subscribed to Church's hyperbolic analogy, the U.S. Senators approved his point. Last week the Senate passed, by a vote of 70 to 16, a resolution that advises Presidents to ask the consent of Congress before they ever again commit the U.S. overseas. The measure does not have the force of law, but merely expresses the "sense of the Senate." It nevertheless will stand as a clear warning that the Congress will not meekly accept unilateral presidential initiatives in foreign affairs...
...Western Hemisphere. As Winston Churchill observed, the action "would, according to all the standards of history, have justified the German government in declaring war." President Truman later dispatched troops to Korea without congressional approval, John Kennedy had his Bay of Pigs, and Lyndon Johnson saw no need to ask Congress before sending fighting men to the Dominican Republic...
...baseball, Nixon likes to mingle with the players. Frank Gifford, the sports broadcaster who once played halfback for the Giants, recalls Nixon's days as a New York lawyer: "He is a football nut. He used to come to the dressing room and ask everybody probing questions about the game. When I lived near Yankee Stadium, I used to have people over after the game, maybe a dozen players, and Nixon would come. He didn't ask dumb questions." Sports stars are frequent guests at the White House; Arnold Palmer, Bart Starr and Billy Casper dropped by recently...
Retailers can continue to advertise credit in general wording ("Ask About Our E-Z Payments Plan"), but if an ad men tions even one specific term it must go on to list all others. That could embarrass ghetto storekeepers, many of whom lure the poor into expensive installment contracts by trumpeting "No Money Down - Years...
...this month a show of contemporary art interrupts the rhythmic silence of art history. Like the curious summer visitor, a current exhibition of works by graduate students at the Boston Museum School appears out of place. Without the approval bestowed by time, they are foreigners. Boldly, they ask the viewer to look. They call for attention...