Word: crowding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon was appalled that no full mobilization of U.S. manpower was ordered, and that their suggestions for committing up to 750,000 troops as soon as they could be assembled were ignored. "Gradualism was the classic mistake of the McNamara crowd," sums up one Pentagon officer. Says another: "The American people won't support a long war-but they would have supported a short one if we had got in and got out quickly...
...unconvincing, the second too expensive and exotic. For a people living in the Moon Age, the cybernetic version of the astrological moon can be just as believable as the sandy satellite visited by an astronaut. Perhaps astrology is the religion of the future. At any rate, the crowd at Grand Central was bisexual, biracial, and bigenerational. And almost everyone was fascinated...
...capacity crowd of 4013, which had arrived more than an hour early and thoroughly booed Harvard's first appearance on the ice, created a verbal bedlam at the opening whistle that set the hurried, almost frantic New Hampshire pace early in the game...
...share of yelling and was feeling rather happy, but then I noticed my shirt. It was all pitted up, and it was only the fourth race. First you have to understand that swimming pools are warm places, that I was very much excited, and that there was a big crowd around, making it really hot. But my shirt was really messed up, and it was my favorite one, and, worse. I had just done a wash. You would never have guessed that I use that extra dry stuff. But it was a sure sign that I was having a good...
...Army finally won the freestyle relay for its only victory of the day, and the Cadets could smile. In his eagerness, however. Army's last man had gone in too early, so the team lost the relay, too. You could have sworn you were at B. C. when the crowd applauded the announcement...