Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorubas fall somewhere in between, but closer to the Ibos than the Hausas. They are literate; they're politically sophisticated, but they look at life with a grin...
...Hanoi the assurances of the mutual de-escalation that he had al ways demanded. Given China's heavy pressure on North Viet Nam not to make any overt agreement with the U.S., it seemed doubtful that such assurances would be forthcoming. Hanoi might also have reasoned that the closer the U.S. election drew, the more willing Johnson would be to give ground. On the other hand, the North Vietnamese might prefer to deal with L.B.J. -a known, if occasionally inscrutable, quantity-than with a new President who might take six months or so to get things moving...
...with the "irrelevance of liberalism" to the modern world, but in many ways her communist vision seemed, too, to be irrelevant. Someone asked about Martin Luther King, "He was a tremendous human being," Mrs. Mitchell said sadly. "But I do not accept non-violence as a principle. I am closer to Malcolm X. He stood for freedom...
...rancher (who's voting for Wallace because he wants Hanoi H-bombed) will watch his daughter die in child-birth as he is flying her, in his little Cessna, to the hospital in Butte, several hundred miles away. In his grief, he will rail because there was no doctor closer, but he'll probably never make the connection...
...always, Soviet officials were cautious and cryptic when they reported the results of the maneuver. The two ships, they said, had closed to within 650 feet of each other under "automatic control." Then Beregovoy took over and flew even closer. Whether he actually completed docking was not made clear...