Word: dominos
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...Penn swimmers tried to use the domino theory in Saturday's meet with the Harvardaquamen, but things didn't quite fall into place as the Crimson squad knocked down the Quakers...
...federal aid, claiming that the city could do no more to help itself - that they turned the President off. Both sides began to mobilize public opinion to pressure the other. The President made stern public appeals for frugality and forebearance; New Yorkers argued that a default would have a domino effect around the nation and even abroad...
...domino theory of Latin America, U.S. policy-makers in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations perceived Cuba to be the first wedge of Soviet-sponsored communist aggression and dictatorship. To stop this Red cancer the CIA was authorized to infiltrate and suppress any government, institution, political party or embassy that supported or was supported by "communists." This task was to occupy Agee until he left...
...point, though she did not press Kissinger about his displeasure with the Israelis or probe his contention that Congress is largely to blame for South Viet Nam's fall. At one point, when Kissinger rephrased-and defanged-a Walters query about the validity of the domino theory, she cooed, "I like your questions much better than mine. They are clearer...
...ally down. But it was inevitable after Congress pulled the rug out from under the President with the War Powers Act. Hanoi was home free at that moment, for our only trump was gone. Other countries in Southeast Asia must be lonely and frightened. People who dismiss the domino theory...