Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floor. Actually, Fortas' foes on the committee itself, including its chairman, Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland, may well keep the nomination tied up in committee unless most of the Senators favoring it can finally be mustered to bring the matter to a vote. Should there be a floor fight, there is little likelihood that enough Senators would show up during this campaign month to provide the necessary two-thirds vote to cut off debate...
...Rumania, the Warsaw Pact nation that has long defied Moscow's hegemony in Eastern Europe by insisting on its right to an independent foreign policy and has unwaveringly supported the Czechoslovaks in their triumphs and tragedy. There was every prospect that the Rumanians, unlike the Czechoslovaks, would fight should the Soviets invade. The Rumanian Ambassador to Bonn formally informed the West German Foreign Ministry that the Rumanian army had been issued orders to shoot the first invaders...
Quiet Preparations. Wherever Ceausescu went, he assured his audiences that Rumania would fight if invaded. Though he did nothing comparable to Tito's open show of force, military preparations were quietly under way. Reserve officers were called up over the weekend for "exercises." In Bucharest, members of a newly formed militia, officially called "patriotic armed detachments of workers, peasants and intellectuals, defenders of the independence of the country," were issued guns and drilled briskly. Responding to reported shifts of Bulgarian armored units to the Danube River border, the Rumanians moved tanks within striking distance of the bridge at Giurgiu...
Upset though they were, the Bannisters finally agreed not to fight the suit if a minister they sent as an emissary could interview the boy to determine if he were happy with his dad. The minister was satisfied, and last week a California judge ruled that Mark, now ten, can stay home...
...manufacture of the machinery of war, man's ingenuity knows few limits. Even now, he is capable of putting orbiting H-bombs into outer space, ready to drop on signal. Tomorrow his navies may be prepared to fight at sea with ships capable of speeds up to 100 knots; his armies may be organized to battle on land with compact, radiation-proof robots...