Word: directe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done thus far in the war, and would raise the level of conflict to new peaks. Among them: invasion in force of Laos or even North Viet Nam with U.S. troops, bombing the Red River dikes to flood the North's chief food-producing region, or making a direct aerial attack on the key North Vietnamese port of Haiphong. Neither U.S. nor world opinion would stand for any of those, and Nixon's new entente with Western Europe would vanish overnight. Still untried, but less drastic, would be a naval blockade of Haiphong or Sihanoukville in Cambodia...
...missile-site radar): a less powerful device than PAR, but one that provides refined, close-in surveillance of targets. MSR would direct the firing of Sprints and Spartans...
Golda Shelanu, or "our Golda," as she is called, has seemed like a permanent institution of the Israel Labor Party and Israeli life for 40 years. Granite-willed, forceful and disconcertingly direct, she is more respected than popular, and as uncompromising in public policy as she is in private principle. While it is a byword in government offices that "no one ever crosses Golda," no one who knows her is surprised at her egalitarian insistence, in the privacy of her home, of having her maid and chauffeur share her table, kibbutz-style. An opposition gibe that "all government decisions...
...another sense nothing has really changed. Harvard prizes academic freedom fiercely and it has long been a community in which reasoned dissent is tolerated easily. "The place has always been exciting," says Dean Glimp. "It's just exciting now in different ways." College authorities seldom try to direct the mores of the students nowadays, but that is not so much a sign of new permissiveness as it is a continuation of the old policy of treating undergraduates as responsible adults capable of thinking for themselves. As a result, bitter confrontations have been...
...Binger study has a direct relevance for an unfortunately large number of American families. Leukemia is now the deadliest disease among children aged four to 14, claiming 1,400 victims a year. It is the third leading cause of death in this age group, after accidents, and almost equal to all other cancers combined...