Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seeds of Doubt...
...About the story on the anti-ballistic missile [May 26]: No one denies that an ABM system would stop only a fraction of incoming warheads-no defense of any kind in any war has ever been 100% effective. The idea is to sow enough doubt, uncertainty and expense into the plans of the enemy to deter him from striking. The daring technical innovations of high X-ray yield and terminal interception pioneered by the Soviets point the way to a viable ABM defense. Let's build one. NORMAN G. LOOPER Lieutenant, U.S.N. St. Paul...
...salesroom or the insides of factories. How refreshing! Besides dollars and engineering brains, Americans have heart, foolishness, creative hands. The apple corer dreamed up by some ingenious Yankee, the hand sewing machine, the wooden-paddle washing machine were all forerunners of today's American technology. Should anyone doubt it, the space capsules swinging aloft will remind him. Yes, there are many movie stars, perhaps too many, but when I was a European teenager, I knew more about Clark Gable than about Massachusetts, now my home...
There was little doubt as to where the majority of Americans stood. In Chicago's Loop, Mayor's Row restaurant changed the name of one of its dining rooms from "Little Egypt" to the "Tel Aviv Room." In Miami, a group of Cuban exiles approached a rabbi and offered to fight against the Arabs. In Boston, Cardinal Gushing and 18 other high-ranking Catholic and Protestant churchmen came out for Israel. So did more than 3,700 university professors from around the country in a signed newspaper statement...
...modern standards, she has no respectable air force or nuclear umbrella, and so on. These arguments were even more valid in 1950 than they are today. Nevertheless, China did intervene in Korea. Until recently, Washington was convinced that China would intervene if Hanoi collapsed; now Washington begins to doubt. But it is not China's policies or her national interests which have changed. What has changed is the Administration's need to rationalize more and more desperate policies. If continued, these policies will inevitably result in war with China...