Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, the "most grueling ordeal" of 1964 was the threatened rail strike. In begging the railway brotherhoods to extend their strike deadline, he put on a convincing, if not especially ennobling, performance. "He pleaded beyond reason," said a labor man afterward, "for a President of the U.S." But two weeks later, with the final deadline only hours away, he was at his best. He sat down with the carriers to talk them into accepting the settlement, though he had heard that they were seven to two against it. When one management man began, "I'm just an old country...
...around them, staging lectures, recitals, plays and debates to which the public is invited. The foundations are handing out more and more money for cultural causes-an estimated $50 million this year. In 1964, for instance, the Rockefeller Foundation made grants to seven symphony orchestras to enable them to extend their seasons one or two weeks, and the Ford Foundation made grants to professional ballet companies from Salt Lake City to Boston...
...bugged automobile 240 km. away. From vents in the rear it releases a smokescreen and an oil slick. From ports in the grille it protrudes a pair of machine guns. What's more, the rear axle of the chariot is armed with bladed hub caps that telescopically extend to chew up the rubber of an overtaking vehicle. And if the driver should decide to ditch an obstreperous passenger, he need only press a button: the roof glides back and the jump seat violently ejects the jerk...
With Savio's emergence as chief spokesman for the FSM, two schools of thought have developed to account for him. To his friends--and there are many--he is a brave and honest spokesman who seeks simply to extend First Amendment freedoms to the Berkeley campus. To his enemies--and there are many--he is a party-line Marxist revolutionary, bent on destroying the University of California. The first view is inadequate; the second is simply wrong...
...back to Viet Nam and urge the South Vietnamese government to try harder and do better. But there was one tough-sounding sentence about how North Vietnamese help for the Communist guerrillas was building up; implied was the possibility that the U.S. might, as Taylor had urged, extend...