Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite a solemn pledge to Israel in 1957 that there would be free access to the Gulf of Aqaba, was still intent on lining up a few other nations before threatening to test the blockade. Should diplomacy or threats fail to solve the impasse, Lyndon Johnson is bound to become the target of heavy fire unless he actually does challenge Nasser. Nor would such criticism be unjustified, since failure to act would amount to a dismal retreat from a clear-cut commitment...
...Errs? Take these examples. Who, in 1939, said: "It has been assumed, in my opinion erroneously, that Japan covets the Philippine Islands. Just why has never been satisfactorily explained. Proponents of such a theory fail fully to credit the logic of the Japanese mind"?1 Or who, in 1933, after reading a speech by Chancellor Adolf Hitler, wrote: "We have heard once more, through the fog and the din, the hysteria and the animal passions of a great revolution, the authentic voice of a genuinely civilized people. I am not only willing to believe that, but it seems...
...suspect, these two strategies would fail, then at least there would be an organization in being that could be equipped to run a campaign on a national level. It is vitally important to envision such a proposed peace-and-civil-rights bloc as flexible and able to swing its support in different directions depending on where it might do the most good. Options are kept open not by waiting to organize but by waiting to commit our resources until other, more moderate, strategies are tried...
...Bunting's plans to make Radcliffe a residential college modeled on the Harvard House plan. With only minimal consultation with undergraduates. Mrs. Bunting has committed herself to a mammoth $7.5 million fund-raising drive to complement a gift from the Ford Foundation for undergraduate dormitory housing. Her plans fail to deal with the vital question of whether girls should be forced to live in the clearly restrictive, prep-school atmosphere of a dormitory, however lavish, rather than in the free environment of an apartment of off-campus house...
...regard to [Efram J.] Sigal's article ("New Peace Corps Volunteers has Big Plans; Two Years Later He is Watching the Clock," March 6). The Peace Corps stands on its own merits. It may succeed, and it may fail. But if it fails, it won't be because of the people who work within the framework of its ideas...