Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Battlefield success depends in large measure upon allowing professional generals to captain the military operation once the politicians have made the decision to fight. Once decided, further intrusion by politicians and diplomats creates more confusion than forward motion, loss of surprise, and a mucky situation such as we now have in Viet Nam. You just can't decide for a general where and when he will bomb or how he will attack. These are his valuable resources which spell success or defeat; timing is crucial. It's surprising that Westmoreland has done so well under the circumstances...
...such edited and contrived film footage. We are shown the brave defenders amidst their showcase rubble and under their manhole covers; Hanoi's almost tranquil orderliness contrasted with the confusion of corrupt Saigon; and with presumably straight faces we watch the military traffic flow south to fight the American aggressors, having only admiration for the resiliency and cleverness of the North Vietnamese as they thwart our attempts to prevent their takeover of the South. A natural sympathy for a beleaguered people becomes perverse when so distorted, and especially so when the actually beleaguered happen to live south...
...promises to "fight hard" for the nomination. Until recently, it seemed that no Humphrey fight would be hard enough. His early reputation as a sectional, dogmatic, abrasively self-righteous radical evaporated some time ago, to be replaced by an equally detrimental image as the uncritical apologist for an unpopular Administration. Many have denounced him for out-Lyndoning Johnson on the war. Others think that he is really too nice a guy to run a successful national campaign, too soft to fire anyone who needs firing. Even his power base in Minnesota seemed to dissolve. To some it appears that political...
...specific issues at stake have not changed much since the fight began last December. What has changed is the style in which each side has conducted negotiations. RUS, originally conceived as a militant replacement for RGA, has shown an increasing willingness to compromise and cooperate with the Administration. The Trustees, while professing sympathy with the students' cause, have chalked up a record of action that makes their claims sound hollow...
Business has recently launched a huge advertising campaign to convince students that it is, indeed, socially and morally conscious. "Thus it is that General Electric Company stresses its role in the fight against air pollution (it builds filtering systems), that Westinghouse Electric Company tells students and others about its work in running a Job Corps Center, and that Corn Products Company asks for '100 college graduates who realize that hunger is the most urgent problem in the world today,' an article explains. This is necessary, but hardly sufficient. Liberal-minded undergraduates are certainly concerned with the "social conscience...