Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they had been paid by the American government to carry out operations against the revolutionary regime. Extremely sophisticated radio transmission equipment was captured with the commandos. One group had brought a pistol and silencer with bullets dipped in potassium cyanide. The CIA's involvement with Cuban exiles may only extend as far as financing intelligence-- gathering operations, and its payments may only be a means of exercising some control over anti-Castro groups. The Cuban government, of course, takes a more sanguine view of the supposed link...
...Washington demanding an injunction against enforcement of the Hershey edict. And even though Hershey at week's end softened his threat by absolving "lawful protesters" from priority call-up, to many ordinary Americans it seemed peculiar that the man who describes military duty as a "privilege" should extend it to those he seeks to punish...
...Ford II Professor of Social Science, states it best: "Most students here take too many courses. They chop their emotional energies into too many little bits. We should be encouraging students to play from weakness instead of strength, but the system here puts pressure on the student not to extend himself in areas where he's awkward because he fears not doing brilliantly...
...death, Stevenson warned: "The principal threat to world peace and Western security in the foreseeable future will almost certainly be Communist China." As China's nuclear-supported military strength and prestige grew, he predicted, "it will use that prestige and a disproportionate share of its resources to extend its influence and create maximum disorder in Asia and Africa...
Voluntary service, at home or abroad, is something quite different from these other adventur,es with implications that can last a lifetime. This is especially true among the relatively well-off Americans who have been denied the opportunity to extend themselves to the limit, other than in academic competition...