Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might perhaps begin even now, without in any way restricting the Viet Nam debate, to let a certain measure of modesty and generosity into the dialogue. As to what will or won't work in Viet Nam, we might begin by admitting that we are all to some extent guessing. Nothing is guaranteed. So far as the morality of the policy is concerned, we might do well to credit all parties to the debate with decent motives and a normal sense of human compassion...
Power Duopoly. There is an outside chance that some long-range benefits may shake out of the war. The two superpowers proved that they could cooperate to a limited extent, at least when it came to defusing a situation fraught with real danger to both. The lesson could be applied equally well toward Viet Nam, where Washington and Moscow seemed on the verge of a joint move toward peace last autumn, then veered off into a new round of hostility. If Russia and the U.S. could work together on the Arab-Israeli war, Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton...
...Sinai, King Hussein's legionnaires fought stubbornly and with discipline. But as in Sinai, the Israelis' absolute mastery of the air meant ultimate Arab defeat. All day the jets wheeled into steep dives to drop bombs and napalm canisters on stubborn pockets of Jordanian resistance. Unaware of the extent of Egypt's air losses, Hussein could not believe that the Israeli air force alone could so blacken the sky on his own Jordanian front. Thus it was partially understandable that for a while, at least, he backed up Nasser's claim that the U.S. and British planes had joined...
...that the only successful French Revolution was that which had been conducted by the bourgeois, not against them. Although he liked to shock and astonish them on his own terms, he was always careful not to offend or challenge on their terms. Astutely, he wrote: "I know to what extent...
...great extent, then, Vietnam Summer will be a testing ground for Harvard students who have been squeamish about getting together with strident New Leftists. The chances for widespread anti-Administration alienation are immeasurably increased for the simple reason that moderates this summer will have to face the shocking probability that the traditional political method of legal persuasion -- with respect to Vietnam -- has become outmoded...