Word: cloakful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw, either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement." Since the condition for an end to U.S. military involvement is that Ho Chi Minh call off an army that is not his to command, it is Johnson's offer of "unconditional discussions" that is meaningless. The offer of $1 billion of aid to develop the Mekong delta and the expressed desire to see peace returned to that part of the world are an attempt to place the blame for continued fighting on the National Liberation Front...
...looking. While past experience has shown that speculating on Johnson's appointments can be risky, official Washington is doing a lot of guessing. Among those being talked about: Richard Helms, 52, the CIA's deputy director for plans, the man responsible for the agency's cloak-and-daggerish activities; Ray Cline, 47, deputy director for intelligence, in charge of the CIA's overt intelligence operations such as analyzing foreign news and quizzing returning overseas travelers; Navy Secretary Paul Nitze; Lieut. General Joseph Carroll, director of the Defense Department's intelligence agency; Assistant Secretary of State...
Almost any spy thriller, properly dust-jacketed, can sell a few thousand copies to the cloak-and-dagger addicts; the truly great ones have an intangible extra quality of atmosphere that broadens their appeal and propels them up the bestseller lists. Funeral in Berlin, if not quite of the master class, is plausible and pleasant. Its special quality is an ironic humor in the midst of triple treachery. Its plot is of more-than-Byzantine intricacy, with a plump and devious British agent, a German Jew masquerading as an ex-Nazi, a Soviet colonel masquerading as a defector...
...police-picked up Detective Maline and drove him to a luncheonette. They parked and got out of the car. When they returned, they found a key in the car, with a note directing Maline to the Trailways bus station and locker 0911. Then, in the finest traditions of cloak-and-dagger-manship, the driver reportedly stuffed the note into his mouth and swallowed...
...secret is, Lyndon gives and takes," a fellow Senate Democrat once explained. "If you go along with him, he gives you a little here and there-a dam, or support for a bill." While he was Senate majority leader, Johnson's "treatment" became famous. In cloak room and corridor, in his baronial office or right out on the floor of the chamber, he would go to work on a colleague -squeezing his elbow, draping a huge paw over his shoulder, poking him in the chest, leaning so close as to be practically rubbing noses. On the phone...