Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Genial & Relaxed. Nixon, meanwhile, was doing some talking for himself in New Hampshire, where he is regarded as the front runner in the contest that starts the presidential primary season next March. Prefacing everything by saying, "If I become a candidate," he predicted "a close, hard fight in this state" that "I don't expect to lose." Both in New Hampshire and Chicago, his next stop on the way to Wisconsin, he was a genial, relaxed version of the old uptight campaigner. He even had some spare empathy for Johnson ("I've had a few problems with...
...country where the press is usually polite and docile, that ominous warning was recently sounded by the Thai newspaper Siam Rath. A lot of Thais-and Americans-believe that the warning is not exaggerated. The country that once hoped to prevent rather than to fight a Communist insurgency now finds itself involved in an expanding guerrilla fight that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the early days of the Viet Nam war. In Thailand's long-neglected Northeastern provinces, a growing, increasingly bold force of nearly 2,000 Communist terrorists is striking with guns and propaganda at a lengthening list...
...widely dispersed over 3,000,000 sq. mi. of cobalt-blue Pacific that Magellan sailed through their very midst without sighting a single one. In their glittering lagoons and rain-forested redoubts, the Japanese positioned their power to control all the Pacific in World War II-and the U.S. fight to thwart them made a litany and legacy forever of such unlikely flecks on the map as Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Peleliu. The Enola Gay roared off from Tinian to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima; years later the shock waves of the world's first H-bomb...
Paul M. Bator, professor of Law, drew heavy applause when he proposed a massive campaign to enlist graduates of the Law School in the fight against the war. He said that the student-faculty committee should try to mobilize "both Washington lawyers and Wall Street lawyers" behind the peace movement...
...members of the campaign expect a long, hard fight," DiCara said, "but it is worth it since this road is the only one open to revision of an aged and clumsy document...