Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam Veteran. Drafted to defend a dubious cause in which he has no interest, into an Army whose officers may cheat him, to fight through a hell of swamps and heat on behalf of a corrupt government whose reluctant troops are incompetent-only to return, quick or dead, to a homeland where the enemy is encouraged by his contemporaries and many of his legislators and his own sacrifices are ridiculed. No Moon...
WHENEVER a war ends in defeat or a dubious stalemate, the unsuccessful military leaders are apt to grope for some kind of stab-in-the-back explanation. The U.S. is certainly not headed in Viet Nam for any defeat remotely akin to Germany's humiliation in World War I, which the German generals blamed on treacherous politicians and civilian softness. Nor is Viet Nam likely to prove quite as bitter a military experience as the French abandonment of the Algerian war, in which some French officers even threatened to attack Paris in their rage against De Gaulle...
...even before that, when American college hockey was played by Americans, the system produced only one player for the National Hockey League-Tommy Williams. So unless the caliber of home-grown competitors has improved independently since that time, it is dubious that the proposed restriction will do much to increase the number of Americans the professional ranks...
These highly dubious categories and percentages came to life as Blaine presented "the battle plan of the SDS." which amounted to little more than his interpretation of last April at Harvard. "First." he said. "a cause is found which has some support already among the students . . . Then, ostensibly to force action on the issue from the administration, a building is seized. The actual purpose of the seizure is to provoke violence and cause some blood to be shed . . . all the discontented students [then] rally against the apparent perpetrators of the violence and a number of the conformist students also...
...campaign itself has been an education for Hayes. He really isn't one of the Brattle Street crowd, and some of the audiences he faces are either apathetic or openly dubious. This is especially tricky when he speaks to groups that "belong" to various politicians. He handles himself well though, patiently explaining Cambridge's school system to people who don't know much and often don't particularly care, and fielding specific questions like...