Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from being a hawk on the war, I have constantly been revising my views, and in recent months I have become a firm dove. In case my views are of any interest: I am a loyal American, and happy to fight for my country wherever our rights, or the rights of people who desire to be under our auspices, are questioned. I no longer feel that Viet Nam is such a place...
...students who share a sense of hurt that their country is waging a war for which they see no justification. Their frustration that it goes on is deepening. They have the greatest hope for what this country could do if it would, but many may instead be called to fight its war in Vietnam in less than a year. It should not surprise Pusey that they may occasionally act unwisely, and that even their unwise actions will draw the sympathy of many who do not participate...
...council elected Sullivan Mayor. (In Cambridge the Mayor has little real power, save as chairman of the School Committee.) Sullivan, who received votes from two of DeGuglielmo's supporters, stayed out of the subsequent fight over the manager...
Lyndon Bird. Radio Hanoi beams out greetings from Black Power Extremist Stokely Carmichael, repeating tapes that he recorded in North Viet Nam. "To hell with the white man," Carmichael tells the Negro. "It's his war. Let him fight it. The Viet Nam war is for the birds-Lady Bird, Lyndon Bird and all the other birds." Leaflets turned out by the Viet Cong are crude and peppered with misspellings and misstatements (Newark becomes Neward; South Bend, Southden; and Grand Rapids, Gerand Rapid). Though the leaflets show a growing sophistication, current American idiom often booby-traps...
...years, the threat of inflation means that the cash value of a family's life insurance could well prove inadequate to its old-age needs. As a hedge, more and more Americans are turning to mutual funds, which, after all, promise growth instead of fixed returns. Rather than fight the swing to mutuals, the insurance industry itself is enthusiastically joining...