Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy was the unexpected winner of Round 1 because he took a tense and soft-hitting Nixon down a me-too path on domestic issues. In Round 2 Kennedy came through on foreign affairs with considerable strength, faulting the Administration for an inadequate performance in the 1950s and demanding better...
Quemoy & Matsu. There were fewer than ten minutes left when a newsman threw Kennedy the question that made headlines: Since he favored withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Nationalist Chinese offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, couldn't that be interpreted as appeasement? Answered Kennedy: Administration experts including Secretary...
Within minutes the far shore of the bay clogged with curious crowds; traffic eventually backed up all the way to downtown Boston. So many boats swarmed across the water that the rescue operation threatened to become a greater disaster than the crash. As dark fell, a grim collection of bodies...
There are two practicable ways to prevent such a disadvantageous situation from occurring. We could undertake a vast civil defense program to reduce probable American casualties to an estimated ten million and thus render at least credible our threat of massive retaliation to an invasion of Europe... Or, because of...
Amid the mess, the U.N. sat by, keeping the peace but numbly neutral, wistfully wishing someone could get a government together. "It is hoped that before it is too late the political leadership will make its choice, both wisely and well," said Rajeshwar Dayal, U.N. chief in the Congo, in...