Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists far more credit in their planning and thinking than to tag their actions as desperate." In the past, enemy units have refrained from attacking until they had spent weeks planning the battle and scouting the fortifications, and then they took the initiative only when they had a fair chance of winning. Now all that has changed. Documents captured after one battle detailed orders to "attack and continue to attack" and score a "quick victory" even if it meant fighting "to the last...
...McCarthy makes a fair showing in his own party, it may persuade Republicans to choose a candidate more dovish than President Johnson, Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, told a crowd last night in the Hilles Colloquium Room...
...year with no recourse other than the sympathy of his board. But once told the year's or month's starting point in the "age-mix" system or the chosen birth-dates in the "birth-mix" system, a registrant could estimate his chances of induction with a fair degree of accuracy. It's bookmaking...
...Like a fair but fragile vase...
...first full-length motion picture, Yale film kingpin Robert Edlestein takes firm hold on a familiar visual metaphor, and by applying a vigorous half-twist makes it fresh, contemporary, and personal. The paired figures of the Fair Maiden and the Dark Lady, representing the constructive and destructive principles of sexuality, are as old as American storytelling. In Love and Death in the American Novel, Leslie Fiedler has traced them through historical American fiction, but to a movie audience they are especially familiar as the conventional alternatives offered to the male protagonists of countless Hollywood features. In Sally's Hounds, Edlestein...