Word: conception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's request that the Joint Chiefs of Staff put the ability to defend Khe Sanh in writing [Feb. 9] may begin a new concept and set new precedents. He could extend this policy to the State Department, where there is a great need to separate fact from fantasy about the political realities in Viet Nam. If it were put into writing and signed, we would be more inclined to believe it. It took a newspaper editorial to convince Virginia about Santa Claus...
...party member since 1942, Gorshkov knew better than to openly oppose Khrushchev. But as a skilled politician himself, he knew well how to stall. He subtly resisted the missile enthusiasts in the Kremlin, kept alive the concept of surface ships. Then Khrushchev decided to put missiles in Castro's Cuba?and the whole game changed. The humiliation of their backdown under the guns of the U.S. Navy impressed on the Soviet leaders the value of naval power. Shortly after the crisis, Khrushchev sent an order to the admiral: Create a surface fleet...
...sensed this concept accidentally. "I had just been reading Machiavelli's The Prince," he recalls, "on the day when a friend of mine in management began talking to me about takeovers. He complained that there is no book which explains to industrialists how to go about fitting a new acquisition into the corporate empire...
GEORGE Lichtheim has collected a number of his essays and reviews, composed over the last four years for various periodicals, added a short introduction, and published the lot under the too-dramatic title, The Concept of Ideology...
...twelve countries I recently visited, I have talked about the concept of guaranteed neutralization. By guaranteed neutralization, I mean that North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia would be defused from cold war conflict, liberated from the destructive presence of a so-called "War of National Liberation," and relieved of the use or threat of force as a way of resolving disputes or pursuing political goals on their territory...