Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vision was there when the smoke of World War II lifted. As early as 1946, Winston Churchill gave it breath in summoning the Old World to "make a kind of United States of Europe." In 1947, the Marshall Plan began to give it bone and sinew. In 1950, with the Schuman Plan to pool the Continent's coal-and-steel resources, it began to stir. It envisioned nothing less than a prosperous united Europe athwart one Atlantic littoral, allied with the U.S. on the other side-two giants whose joint democratic and humane stand for freedom everywhere would...
...took refuge in the U.S. embassy during the weeks preceding Diem's overthrow?sounds as anti-Communist as any American could wish. Says he: "Like all educated Buddhists, I don't like Communism because it is atheistic. I strongly believe that Communism can never win." In the next breath he adds: "But I fear it is coming to South Viet Nam because this government is unpopular and always seems to do the wrong thing." He even asserts that the government and the U.S. are favoring negotiations with the Communists?the very thing he himself has been accused...
...plummeting necklines and high-riding shorts, offering new methods of engineering that open vistas in unexpected places. Cole of California used fishnet to screen a deep isosceles plunge ($26), Rose Marie Reid to add a jeweled lace topping to a maillot ($50), while Designer Bill Blass took a big breath, and a giant step, left gaps where gaps had never before been left, and let flesh fill in instead of fishnet...
...Deep breath): "We will terminate operations at 95 installations with a loss of 63,000 jobs. We will save $500 million by this trimming of the defense budget." (Next breath): "We shall press for passage of laws for our war on poverty, creating new jobs. It will cost only $1 billion." (Under the breath): "We'll lose the scattered 63,000 votes, keep the consolidated depressed-area votes." Result: another sweeping mandate...
Predictably enough, Truman was vigorously booting General Douglas MacArthur all over the inside of the tube. At 80, Truman seemed somewhat short of breath, but what there was of it would have curled leather. "Some of them get the big head," he said, assessing the man he fired. "I was the commander in chief, and I had to make up my mind what I would do with an insubordinate general ... He was trying to get himself in good with one of the big parties of the government of the United States ... He didn't fool anybody. Least...