Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With its obsessive lack of forthrightness, the Johnson Administration had consistently deluded the American people-and Hanoi as well. Official spokesmen quailed at the prospect of admitting that this far-off war, like any other in history, had to get bigger; they have denied that the U.S. was intensifying the conflict even as more troops poured into South Viet Nam and bigger bombing missions sought out new targets. While many Americans grew skeptical of the Administration's pronouncements, Hanoi, by contrast, may well have interpreted them as evidence of Washington's ultimate unwillingness to go the last mile...
Bedford-Stuyvesant New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant is in many way worse off than Harlem. Although it is bigger it has received far less attention than the "glamor ghetto" to the north. But it has a friend in Bobby Kennedy. Some think this means Befford-Stuyvesant has a future...
...many ways, Bedford-Stuyvesant is worse of than Harlem. It is bigger, yet it has received from public and private do-good agencies for a less attention than -- as one planning paper terms it--the "glamour ghetto" to the north. Until the Bedford-Stuyvesant riots, the city's Council Against Poverty was funneling into Harlem five times as much money as Bedford-Stuyvesant was getting...
...conference is the seven-story San Rafael Hotel, which looks like an overgrown Tudor mansion. The talks themselves will be held in the hotel's gambling casino, where some $30,000 is bet each night during the season on roulette and blackjack. Johnson hopes to place a far bigger bet on Latin America's ability to build and profit from a common market...
...trimester. Roberts has been able to erect $20 million worth of buildings on campus and push the average faculty pay from about $3,000 a year to more than $15,000-third highest in the nation. This year, while almost every school in the nation is running bigger deficits than ever, Parsons recently reported a neat annual profit of nearly...