Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is usually a lag between newly developed social science techniques and their implementation in foreign policy. During the 1950's, the government had fallen far behind. With Kennedy's election, the New Frontier brought many of Harvard's best into the White House, including McGeorge Bundy as special assistant for National Security Affairs. The Kennedy men brought American foreign policy up to date. The first special forces went into Vietnam...
...secretary advancing towards us with a tray of four cups of coffee, and big bowls with cream and sugar. She set the tray down on the table we were clustered around and slipped out quietly. The porcelain was hand painted, and with two spoonful of sugar, it was the best coffee I had ever tasted. One of them asked whether I'd like cream, Dick, and I realized that suddenly we were Bob, Ray, Joe, and Dick. I was having coffee with very important people, so I, too, was a very important person...
...students and junior teaching staff. But, helpful as these ad hoc contacts have been, we believe that they need to be supplemented by arrangements which will bring students into a closer relationship with the more formal decision-making machinery of the Faculty. We think that such a result can best be achieved through a wider use of joint student-faculty committees which meet at stated intervals to discuss matters of common interest. We realize from our own experience that such committees consume a great deal of time and energy and divert both their student and faculty members from their personal...
During the first part of her visit to Hanoi this feeling of impotence is compounded by her inability to relate to the North Vietnamese who strike her as opaque and child-like in their great generosity and formality. This admission reflects two of her best traits: her refusal to examine any phenomenon with less than all of her formidable critical powers and her honesty. She relies totally on what she sees and feels and will not lapse into cliches. This is quite a feat when you are writing about a nation which your government is trying to exterminate...
...Crimson JV soccer team turned in its best performance to date Saturday afternoon when it handed the Amherst junior varsity a 4-0 defeat on the Business School field...