Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over all those years, none of his actions has received the violent criticism that followed his October letter to local boards directing them to induct war and draft protestors. Hell broke loose all around him, with newspapers, educators, and civil libertarians across the country demanding his retirement. His directive was also strongly attacked on the Senate floor, but not one word was said there against him personally. Senior and junior congressmen alike are deferent to him in committee hearings...
WHEN presidential aspirant Eugene J. McCarthy mentioned the "Johnson pledge card" in a New Hampshire speech Tuesday, his taciturn audience broke into loud applause. A sore point among Granite State Democrats, the pledge card is generating the kind of bitterness on which, as one McCarthy official put it, "an entire campaign can be built...
...successfully challenged the incumbent Senator in the Republican primary and won election to the Senate against the Democratic nominee later that year. In 1950 he won re-election as a Republican, but in 1952 he broke with the Republican party to form a one-man Independent party in the U.S. Senate because of his opposition to the candidacy of Dwight Eisenhower...
...when a guard in his cement-lined outpost at the side entrance of the Independence Palace saw a distant blur of moving men. There was a shout: "Open the palace gates! We are the Liberation Army!" Then, rockets blazing, the Viet Cong commandos charged. From that moment on, fighting broke out all over the city, to the crack and boom of rockets, mortars and bazookas, the chop of machine-gun fire and the whine of ricocheting bullets. For the would-be liberators of the Independence Palace, the reply was a hail of fire. Retreating across the streets, the Communists took...
...five days of fighting, the stubborn attackers of Tan Son Nhut airstrip were still entrenched near the field as F-100 jets, Skyraiders and helicopters blasted at their positions. Fighting flared in one part of the city and, when troops moved in with air support to damp it down, broke out in another area. Though the allies claimed 2,000 enemy dead in the city, the U.S. command was worried by the presence of a reserve unit of some 1,000 Viet Cong still lurking in Saigon and not yet committed to battle. Allied troops ringed the city...