Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement. After consulting Crossley, they issued a complicated collective verdict. If their three polls were "plotted out sequentially, as though they were conducted by a single organization, using the same sampling techniques and the same question-asking techniques," they concluded, then 1) a Nixon-Humphrey race would be extremely close, "with Wallace perhaps holding the balance"; 2) "Rockefeller has now moved to an open lead over his possible Democratic opponents, Humphrey and McCarthy"; and 3) "the McCarthy vote has shown and continues to show the greatest amount of volatility among the four leading candidates...
There is no reason that Hanoi "cannot find ways to let us know" of any conciliatory intentions, said Rusk. His point, while logical enough, served to close a gap that the U.S. had purposely left open in previous statements, which maintained that the North Vietnamese "wouldn't have to state" their moves toward deescalation. Johnson, moreover, spoke of "the chance that we will have to act promptly on additional military measures" in Viet Nam - a hint to some that the President was preparing for an increase in the fighting or bombing, perhaps even a final push to prove that...
...sheet of flame engulfed a carload of rescuers, incinerating all ten occupants. Nearby Nicaragua, Salvador and Mexico offered aid, and U.S. C-130 transports mounted a shuttle service of relief supplies for 5,000 evacuees from the devastated area. Helicopters were offered for rescue work but could not get close enough to the fire-belching mountain because the clouds of ash were too thick...
...discothèques and rock-'n'-roll joints, the trouble is not so much in the instruments themselves, or even the sustained fortissimi or the close quarters. The blame goes to the electronic amplifiers. An old-fashioned oompah military band, playing a Sousa march in Central or Golden Gate Park, generated as much sound. But the sound was not amplified, and was dissipated in the open air. A trombonist sitting in front of a tuba player might be a bit deaf for an hour or so after a concert; then his hearing returned to normal. A microphone hooked...
...Frankfurter," McCloskey said, "during most of his tenure went against the main trends of Court opinion. Douglas has been disinclined to spend time producing decisions that close legal loop-holes, and Black, for reasons obscure to me, has chosen a method of opinion writing that is assertive rather than explanatory...