Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suppose the war in Vietnam is brought to an end sometime this year. Eckstein estimates that the direct and immediate saving will exceed $10 billion as "spending for munitions, planes, helicopters, food, gasoline, transportation, and extra troops pay tapers...
...more pressing concern is the shortage of trained troops. The Administration insisted that reinforcements will not add to the 525,000 total already scheduled to be in Viet Nam by July, but are merely an acceleration of the buildup. Westmoreland has made no official request to exceed the ceiling of 525,000-that is, not yet. However, no one will be surprised if the general does ask for more men, and gets them: he is already strapped for combat-ready ground units...
People opposed to this country's action in Vietnam, including our use of napalm, could express themselves most convincingly in a large orderly demonstration on the occasion of the Dow recruiter's visit. In number, people opposed to the war exceed those who are united on any single position with regard to campus recruitment, student power, or the draft; they also exceed those willing to join in obstructing the recruiter. The amount of serious support at Harvard for any stand will be judged according to the number (not vociferousness) of those who take it. A non-obstructing, massive anti...
This deposit, according to a spokesman for the Association of American Medical Colleges in Evanston, III., may not exceed $100. Some medical schools, such as Harvard, demand no deposit...
...many new buildings are rising across the nation that the volume of construction during the present decade will exceed everything built in America since the Revolutionary War. At the same time, more and more Americans are concerned that progress should not destroy America's heritage. From New Hampshire to Hawaii, New Orleans to Kodiak, Alaska, New York City to Ord, Neb., history hawks are fluttering against the wrecker's ball. Often their efforts are too little-but less and less are they too late...