Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...postliterate anyway, so why read and write? Even hippiedom is huckstered. In short, white liberals are too busy feeling and emoting to change much of anything. Even their rebellious life styles feed the affluent pop consumer culture. Perhaps the blacks, being hungrier, can discipline themselves a bit better and do us all some good...
...national debate" growing on ABM, he did not budge under attack. Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore told Laird that deploying ABMs "would make armaments-limitation agreement more difficult, if not impossible, to attain, and thus ultimately could degrade our deterrence." Laird replied soothingly that he would like nothing better than to see his job done away with by disarmament. Gore described the ABM scornfully as "a defense in search of a mission," noting that the system had been switched from defending cities to protecting missile sites-"apparently because of a commotion in Boston and Seattle...
...same rate as its own, and assurance that the present Saigon government has the facilities to maintain its own security. Hanoi has expressed willingness to negotiatevftn the first condition, but adamantly insists that the U.S. must reach a separate accord with the National Liberation Front on the second?the better to emphasize the Front's legitimacy. At stake is the eventual future of a South Viet Nam without foreign troops?but faced with a sizable number of native Communist insurgents...
Just how good is the army of South Viet Nam (ARVN) at present? It is in slightly better shape than it was a year ago. With its training program under the direct supervision of U.S. military experts, the necessary skills and equipment are becoming available. Nearly all 821,000 South Vietnamese in uniform have received some training in counterinsurgency warfare, and the entire regular army has been equipped with
...golf team did even better than the record indicates. Playing in the NCAA's for the first time in 28 years, they walked off with 17th place, an outstanding finish for an Eastern team. The golf team was also number one in the East, beating such powerhouses as Yale and Princeton in the Eastern...