Word: bend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover picture of McGeorge Bundy in front of the Great Seal of the U.S. [June 25] is, as is your custom, pregnant with significance. Mr. Bundy seems to be trying to bend his head so that it covers up the warlike spears in the eagle's left claw and only allows the olive branch of peace to show. But his deception is not successful; the arrowheads show through. Perhaps we would be better off if Mr. Bundy either let us see the entire situation or got out of the picture altogether...
...Communists have special respect for Lieut. Commander Nguyen Thanh Chau, 32, and his 25th River Assault Group, a flotilla of gunboats headquartered at Cantho, 100 miles southwest of Saigon, but ranging through the whole delta. Born in the delta district, Chau knows every bridge, every bend in the waterways, every likely crossing point for Communist guerrillas. Chau prefers to conduct his fire fights with the Reds from the bridge of his command ship, a gunned-up LCM. "It's too hot below," says he, "and you can't see anything." Over the past year, Chau has lost only...
...mankind," the U.S. perhaps needs to announce its purposes more clearly and then act on them fearlessly. In influencing the minds of men, it is more important to state than to reply, to proclaim the truth than to refute accusations. The U.S. should not be afraid to seem to bend with world opinion if doing so is in its pragmatic interest. But above all, the U.S. should never truckle to adverse opinion, or use it as an excuse to pursue bad policies, or be untrue to itself in order to gain approval...
Descended of New England Puritans, victor of many savage Albany battles involving labor-management relations, Frances Perkins was not about to bend before Washington's political winds. "Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees," was her one concession to critics who howled when Franklin Roosevelt appointed her Secretary of Labor in 1933-the first woman Cabinet member in U.S. history...
...Deanna Hanbey, 28, of South Bend, Ind., wife of a traveling auditor, had grown despondent over her husband's absences and over the task of caring for her four children-two-year-old twin boys, a girl, 6, and a boy, 7. A woman friend found Mrs. Hanbey and the children in the bedrooms: the youngsters had been strangled to death with nylon stockings and a necktie; Mrs. Hanbey had tried to strangle herself, to cut her wrists and ankles, and to set fire to the house. She was hospitalized, whimpering that she had murdered her children and crying...