Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gorey: Humphrey started out a bit panicky, but in his closing drive he is a different man from the one who started reeling around the country after Chicago. He is in much better command of himself. He is full of fight and a surprising amount of self-confidence...
Bitterness over this year's preconvention fight has intensified the dissatisfaction that has been building within the state party for years. Meyer Berger, national treasurer of the Americans for Democratic Action and a Pennsylvanian, calls Tate an ignoramus...
...right that faculty have often been spineless and that they have not sacrificed themselves to help students escape from military service. But how many students have sacrificed themselves for faculty when faculty faced various kinds of problems (smears in McCarthy days, etc.)? To be sure, everyone is willing to fight harder for things that most concern him than people who face less immediate difficulty. I do think, however, that many of us would be willing to exert ourselves more if we were persuaded we could really help. My point about CIA officials at Harvard is not "don't be immature...
...flew guns one trip and baby food the next," he recalls with a chuckle. And he sees no irony in the combination. "They (the Nigerians) are offering the Biafrans a choice between starvation and massacre, and the Biafrans need something to fight both...
...Nigerians and Biafrans are still the principal parties, and that doesn't make for a neat war. "Their psychology is different. We'd fight harder if we knew we'd be cut up into little pieces if we were captured, but they figure on putting a little fear into the other side," he says. Last April, McGuire helped to ferry Col. "Black Jack" Schramme's white mercenaries out of the Congo to Rwanda, and he says that even the mercenaries, by some accounts the most unpleasant white men around, felt a little bitterness at the African fighting style. "They...