Word: clingingness
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The family physician bucks the case to a psychosomaticist, who flounders in jargon. It takes a young Jesuit psychiatrist-priest, equally familiar with the uses of Librium and prayer, to understand that Regan suffers from old-fashioned possession by the devil. Sometimes known as Captain Howdy, he speaks through Regan...
If there were a single apt image for Henry Kissinger's role in Vietnam, it would be one of the global diplomat clinging to stability, maintaining order, concerned with honor and prestige. And it is in Vietnam that the Nixon-Kissinger policy has reached the limit of its logic and...
In a collection of his New Republic columns titled The Nixon Watch, John Osborne last year wrote that "the study of Richard Nixon requires a steadfast clinging to the fact that he is human. That is not easy." Last week The Second Year of the Nixon Watch was published (Liveright...
Not even the usually polished briefers could put a completely bright face on Lam Son 719's clouded conclusion. Only hours after the latest Washington assurances that all was continuing "according to plan," the South Vietnamese began streaming back-on foot, aboard armored columns repeatedly raked by enemy fire...
Crowded Helicopters. One of the 1st Division's three regiments-the 3rd-returned with only 450 of its original 2,000 men still in fighting condition. For those troops at least, the orderly retreat had become a rout. Choppers that ordinarily accommodate eight men carried 14, some clinging precariously...