Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the N.L.F., like the Greek Communist Party following the civil war in 1950, would have to change its name in order to comply with the South Vietnamese constitution. Thieu has spoken derisively of such a proposal, though he has not actually ruled it out. Indeed, there is little doubt that, in one form or another, he must some day accept its principal component: the participation of the N.L.F. in Saigon's political processes. Certainly his own outline for an end to the war?for Hanoi to "acknowledge its aggression against South Viet Nam and accept to end that aggression...
...nation's second largest city, whose outskirts were penetrated during the current offensive and which has been shelled repeatedly. Despite some damage and the sharp increase in U.S. casualty figures, however, the 1969 offensive has so far not disrupted South Viet Nam as a country?thanks largely, no doubt, to Abrams' interdiction tactics...
...institutions that at times do seem beyond reach of normal, peaceful change. Pseudo-revolutionary activity sometimes does bring results. Often it has a shock value that awakens complacent citizens to their responsibilities. The very intensity of radical word and deed communicates a desperate message to less tormented souls. No doubt the uprising at Columbia University finally jolted the administration into an awareness of legitimate student grievances and may well result in a more responsive university. The ghetto riots prodded white businesses into recruiting in the slums...
...earnest of social conscience. On the other hand, artistic achievement still earns points. To that end, one Emory applicant used a particularly impressive approach: he sent an anthology of his poetry, urgently requesting its return because the only other copy was in the hands of a publisher. "I doubt that it was," says an Emory admissions man, "but it made a good story...
Thus it took over three weeks of Al-phones and Gaston tactics before the decision was reached. And aside from raising the question of why the two athletic directors did not think to refer to the NCAA before that time, one is led to strongly doubt the efficiency of communication and coordination between at least two of the athletic directors in this league...