Word: basely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Johnson "would rank with what we call the first-class second-class Presidents, and perhaps with a big effort, even rise above that." Now he says: "This war has damaged Lyndon Johnson's place in history. It has divided the country, and that has cost him his power base. I bet he wakes up in the morning sometimes and wonders what happened...
...million. A main source of that slump is lagging profits in the synthetic-fiber business. Accounting for about one-third of Du Pont sales, synthetics have been hurt by a slowdown in the textile industry caused largely by rising imports and falling prices. While Du Pont continues to base hopes for recovery on its huge research budget ($110 million a year), McCoy realistically admits that "the more discoveries we make, the more rapidly our competitors move in against...
...turned back to Kavalla, he faced a shattering situation. In its months in power, the junta had carefully placed junior officers loyal to it on all general staffs, just in case their commanding officers should prove too royalist. Now a young major named Nicholas Petanis had raced from a base on the Greco-Turkish border to Kavalla and brought a column of tanks with him. He and other junior officers loyal to the junta arrested the three generals who were the King's chief supporters. That ended Constantine's coup. The major gave the King a choice: return...
...Soviet ships, including missile-firing destroyers, plus a dozen submarines, patrol the Mediterranean. The Russians supply their ships at sea, sometimes drop into Alexandria, Port Said and the Syrian port of Latakia for repairs under the pretext of good-will visits. They also visit the French-built base at Mers-el-Kebir on the Algerian coast, which they would like to use as a permanent base when the last remnants of the French navy pull out next year. Sometimes the Soviet ships come so close to U.S. vessels that the Americans must take evasive action...
...Another inflationary sign came last week, when the Federal Reserve Board announced that during November, the nation's industrial output took its sharpest monthly jump in three years-rising 2.6 points on the board's index, to 159% of the 1957-59 base period...