Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have lived in countries where the rabble like we saw in the streets of Chicago took over the governments. They machine-gun protesters, murder the old-line politicians, gag the news media, and impale a few heads on spikes. Better a billy club and some tear gas than a rabble-controlled government...
...National Press Club speech, Clifford also called for the retention of a large U.S. ground force in Europe, which until recently was the target of powerful congressional economizers. "The events of the past few weeks have clearly demonstrated that a significant American military presence in Western Europe is still needed," the Defense Secretary said...
Last December, Mrs. Carl Rowan, wife of the former ambassador to Finland, was elected to membership at the Indian Spring Country Club near Washington. Soon after she was invited to become a member of her club's "B" tennis team, the Chevy Chase Club, the Columbia Country Club and the Washington Golf and Country Club decided that none of them could any longer put together a "B" team for interclub matches. Though the clubs deny it, the word around Washington is that some of their members do not relish the possibility of having to play on the same court...
...long way from the football field and his days as star quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants, but there was Y. A. Tittle, 41, agile as ever, weaving through the crush at suburban San Francisco's Palo Alto Hills Country Club. Wearing white tie and tails as proudly as he once wore helmet and shoulder pads, Y.A., now an insurance executive, waltzed his 18-year-old daughter Dianne through the first dance at her debut into Peninsula society...
Perhaps the worst aspect of CBW is the easy availability of its weapons. While the nuclear club remains relatively exclusive, nuclear arms can continue to provide a built-in deterrent-a balance of terror that restrains nuclear powers from starting a war in which winner and loser alike will figuratively glow in the dark. Members of the CBW club may soon multiply. And their very number could vastly increase the possibility that one of them could be tempted to exercise CBW's awful power...