Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blacks generally favor nonviolence, but "not over the achievement of nationalistic objectives." He professes a fear of genocide, not "by the gas chamber but by the slow taking away of our existence" through racial amalgamation. Appealing to Negroes to improve their own lot rather than die in all-out conflict with the white man, Innis adds nonetheless: "We believe that if we must die, it will not be by hara-kiri but by kamikaze-take as many with...
...upcoming mass march June 19, took his task seriously and responsibly, setting out to organize a peaceful demonstration and asking the support of all "Americans of good will." When he followed by issuing a manifesto of reasoned, possibly attainable goals, his measured moderation proved too much for the conflict-ridden Abernathy inner circle...
...Battlefields. Nor is he by any means a loser. His doughty employment of American heart and muscle dragged South Viet Nam back from abject defeat in early 1965. Fighting all the while, his men hacked from virgin jungle and sand dunes the airfields and bases needed to sustain the conflict at the far end of a 10,000-mile supply line. For two years, Westmoreland's search-and-destroy tactics battered his enemy to a counterpunching crouch along Viet Nam's borders. He built up American strength from some 20,000 men in mid-1964 to today...
...Guardian declared that the "seeds" of Kennedy's death lay not only in the Arab-Israeli conflict, but also in "the sickness of American society," in the Viet Nam war and even in the Nigeria-Biafra conflict. "It did not matter if Senator Kennedy's assailant was first believed to be a Mexican, and then a Cuban and then an Arab," said the Montreal Star, adding: "The fact remains that in Harlem and Watts and every other Negro community . . . 'they' [assassins] exist as perpetual enemies, while the one figure who might have provided hope was removed...
Here we are with all this youthful impatience. The faculty and administration, says the Muscatine Report, "are more willing to tolerate the evils of the world, believing they can be reduced but never entirely eliminated." And so we do not understand each other, and there is conflict...