Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White Housekeeping chores, Lyndon moved with profound confidence. But all week he was jostled frequently by the less familiar challenges of foreign affairs. His aides began to refer to the week as a "crisis an hour" era. But, in fact, the crises were mostly small-bore disturbances-such as civilian riots in Panama, a U.S. submarine sent to the China Sea to keep Indonesian President Sukarno in his place, and the ouster of two U.S. diplomats from Tanzania...
Early in 1945, the conquering Russian army surged into East Prussia and besieged the fortress city of Konigsberg. Some of the panicky citizens committed suicide. Others began learning welcoming phrases in Russian. Count von Lehndorff, a civilian surgeon, awaited the end with Christian resignation and continued operating on wounded soldiers and civilians until a shell dismantled his surgery. A woman told him, "Our Führer will never permit the Russians to get us; he'd rather gas us first...
...plus two military officers representing Commander-in-Chief General Nguyen Khanh, met to negotiate. Khanh's lads complained that the military Young Turks, who overthrew the ineffectual High National Council, had been "seriously insulted" by Taylor after he had demanded that coup-minded officers cease interfering with the civilian government. The officers got no apology. But at week's end, under the whirling fans and gilded cornices of Gia Long Palace, Huong and Khanh signed what was advertised as a "solution...
...Viet Nam, warmly thanking them for their help in "our struggle for the defense of freedom." Khanh was shuttling back and forth from his resort-headquarters at Cap St. Jacques, where he huddled secretly with the Young Turk officers who, with Khanh, had outraged Taylor by toppling the civilian High National Council. At other times Khanh was seen speeding through Saigon in his green Mercedes, or bustling about his well-guarded villa inside Vietnamese naval headquarters...
...Americans stop "talking politics," the U.S. embassy ignored him. The embassy was also working on the Young Turks, one of whom said of the Khanh-Turk relationship: "Each side is using the other. Later we shall see who wins." Still in the middle was what was left of the civilian government of Premier Tran Van Huong and aging, ceremonial Chief of State Phan Khac Suu. After a week of frightened silence, Huong and Suu came out with a communique urging a measure of good will on all sides to achieve "a fitting solution to escape from the present crisis...