Word: cosmeticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crucial to Nixon's approach is his ability to prove that the Cambodian incursion has been a tangible success. There was evidence that the operation was indeed proving useful in purely military terms. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird pressed his commanders in Viet Nam about the possibility of accelerating...
At the initial meeting of his Cabinet early in 1969, Nixon promised to set up a special telephone line so that each member could reach him directly during a specified hour each day. Nothing came of it, though last week Nixon said that it was "a good idea" to revive...
At least since Earth Day, however, the garden-club ladies have felt a certain smugness. America's garden clubs have been preaching conservation for years, albeit in modest and genteel ways. Last week when 600 delegates to the national council gathered in Chicago, they tended to say, "I told...
Cackling Caiaphas. When Schaller submitted his script to Oberammergau's 26-man Passion Play committee, it was rejected as too bland and muted. By then there was no time for another revision, so the committee merely used bits of Schaller's version for a cosmetic touch-up on...
Pompidou's visit, which will also take him to Cape Kennedy, San Francisco, Chicago and New York, is intended primarily as a gesture of good will. The French President is fully aware that Americans have developed very mixed feelings about his nation in recent years, largely because of the...