Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Surely there are many thoughtful people who have conscientiously tried to obtain facts on the Viet Nam issue, and who sincerely doubt our policy there. To these people should the Administration listen for they have something worthwhile to say and the right to say it. But all too often the objective questioning is drowned out by the emotional wailings of extremists...
...answer is that it was only in the past few weeks that analysts felt the evidence was strong enough. Also, with congressional hearings this week on the nation's missile defense system, McNamara obviously wanted to use his own platform for such a significant disclosure. Finally, no doubt, Washington felt that Moscow might make the announcement during this week's 50th-anniversary celebrations of the Soviet Revolution, and thus create the shattering impression that the U.S. was now wide open to destruction from outer space...
...will, of Peter Pan, of boys who will not grow up. And it is not good enough. The end of youth is not the end of life, much less the end of the world. It is, or ought to mark the onset of a period of less fun, no doubt, but far more satisfaction and much greater consequence. Poets do their best work young, philosophers late. Nations, I would argue, do it in the middle years, and these are now upon us in America, and it should be with a sense of expectation rather than dread that we greet them...
...thundered across Israel like the wrath of Jehovah. The talk in the streets and in newspaper editorials was of vengeance, and Israeli leaders promised to wreak it. A 2,500-ton Israeli destroyer had been sunk by Egyptian rockets, with the loss of 49 lives, and there was no doubt in either Egypt or Israel-or, for that matter, anywhere else-that retaliation was not far behind. The only questions were when, where and how much...
...there has been a thaw in the Soviet Union, there is no way of telling from the Review. The publication denounces the nuclear test-ban treaty as a sellout to the Russians; Burnham writes a column on foreign affairs called "The Third World War"-the Review has no doubt that it has begun. Not long ago, Buckley urged the U.S. to bomb China's nuclear installations-once due warning had been given so that civilians could be evacuated...