Word: ernest
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...obligation under the 1954 agreements, under the 1962 accords on Laos, and under general international law." It was underwritten last year by a joint resolution of Congress, passed by a 502-2 vote (the holdouts: Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse and Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening) authorizing the President to take "whatever measures necessary" to protect the sovereignty of South Viet...
...State, Namath had rolled out on an option play and dropped suddenly as if poleaxed. No other player had even touched him. Under the strain of a sudden stop, his tensed knee had simply collapsed. First aid consisted of ice packs, and a couple of days later Alabama Surgeon Ernest C. Brock Jr. removed some fluid ("water on the knee") by inserting a hollow needle in the swollen joint...
Armstead and Harris are college-bound, but they are the exceptions. For most slum kids, says Hunter College Sociologist Ernest Smith, "the American dream is not the American fact. These children cannot respond to what is being taught, and most educators resist changing the curriculums to aid these children." Kenneth B. Clark, New York psychologist and civil rights leader, holds that "the Negro kid who drops out of school is probably doing so to protect himself from a system designed to throw him on the dung heap of our society...
Churchill quickly formed a National Government, including such men as Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, and Lord Beaverbrook. But it was Churchill him- self who told the world: "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...
There is a certain amount of sentiment for getting out of Viet Nam at once and at all costs. The leading congressional spokesmen for this view had been Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska until they were suddenly and surprisingly joined two weeks ago by Georgia's Richard Russell, a heretofore generally fervent supporter of a strong U.S. position in the world and a close friend of President Johnson's. South Dakota's George McGovern recently added his voice. "We are on a dead-end street," he said, "and ours is a bankrupt...