Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the lobbying, the issue was still very much in doubt the weekend before the vote. Even some eventual supporters, like Henry (Scoop) Jackson, were growing concerned that the treaty might contribute to a weakening American posture around the world. The vote on the treaty was coming up just after the Russians and the Cubans had chased the Somalis out of Ethiopia. "A lot of members are uneasy about the African situation," said Jackson...
...want to tear the union apart. They want a strong union, one that can deliver a work force every morning." Many executives of the big companies are upset about the latest contract proposal and blame Jimmy Carter for it. Said a steel company official: "There's no doubt we were the losers, dragged into defeat by Government intervention...
...Kentucky readily ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. But last week, after a noisy debate, state representatives voted 61 to 28 to change their minds, making Kentucky the fourth state to rescind approval of the amendment that would ban discrimination on the basis of sex. Some constitutional experts doubt that a legislature can legally have second thoughts about ratification. Nonetheless, the vote in Kentucky was another sign that the ERA is in deep trouble, even though it has been approved by 35 states, three short of the number needed to make it part of the Constitution...
There had never been any doubt that Israel would respond hard to the latest Palestinian terrorism. Premier Begin had vowed as much when he gravely told the Knesset early last week: "We shall do what has to be done. Gone forever are the days when Jewish blood could be shed with impunity. The shedders of innocent blood shall not go unpunished...
...Kissinger was jolted into reality on the fourth day of the war when the distress signal, "Save Israel," reached him. For the first three days the Israeli propaganda machine had spoken of "crushing the bones of the Egyptians"-and the world mass media simply echoed this. Kissinger had no doubt that we would be defeated until he was woken up by the "Save Israel" message-which was an urgent request for 400 tanks to replace those lost on the Egyptian front -and by a Pentagon report to the effect that the war on the Egyptian front was not proceeding...