Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft cannot be used to conscript critics; a conscientious objector can rely on any God he chooses. The civil rights movement has taught Americans to accept nonviolent demonstrations in pursuit of constitutional rights. The rejection of McCarthyism, the civilizing of U.S. criminal justice-such milestones have moved America ever closer to its professed ideals. Few today would cheer the jingoism of World War I, when a pacifist was likely to find his house painted yellow. Most would cheer what Justice Holmes called "free trade in ideas-that the best test of truth is the power of the thought...
There is always a chance, of course, that this state of affairs may change as Viet Nam casualties mount and a remote war comes closer and closer to more and more homes...
...Senate, the long-quiescent Democratic doves mounted a joint attack against Westmoreland and the Administration's recent moves aimed at hitting the North harder. "The new level of escalation marked by our bombing of the North Vietnamese airfields has brought us one step closer to World War III involving the limitless legions of China backed by the enormous firepower of Soviet Russia," declared South Dakota's George McGovern. "I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which sooner or later will envelop my son and American youth...
...suddenly become a threat. For one thing, they said, the Communist jets have forced many U.S. pilots to jettison their bomb loads so as to lighten their planes for impending dogfights which, as often as not, failed to materialize. For another, when the MIGs are aloft, U.S. planes fly closer to the ground to avoid becoming targets -and that makes them more vulnerable to intense flak and small-arms fire. Moreover, as one Air Force general put it, if the MIGs were forced to retreat to Red Chinese airfields, their effectiveness would be drastically reduced, since they would then have...
Although there are still miles to go, the free world last week moved measuredly closer to modernizing its overworked and undercapitalized monetary system. After five years of jockeying, financial negotiators for the first time agreed unanimously to work toward creating something to supplement gold, dollars and British pounds in bankrolling international trade and investment...