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Word: firmnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England the pattern was similar to-if more intense than-the rest of the nation. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) told a World Affairs Council meeting in Boston that the United States should "announce a firm schedule for withdrawing all its troops from Vietnam as a step towards a political settlement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Million Mark Vietnam Moratorium In Nationwide and Boston Protests Rallies Peaceful; War Backers Fly Flags | 10/16/1969 | See Source »

There was no violence in the air. No men masked from view by gas masks. No clubs and guns. Only a store-front window that reflected the afternoon sun, and an owner who would probably be kind but firm and negative...

Author: By Harry Samuel, | Title: How She Shut the Store Down | 10/15/1969 | See Source »

...MANY respects, Charlie Goodell is a classic campaigner. He is a not very-tall man with a slightly off-balance face and a large nose. He has the politician's firm handshake and a warm smile which only cools after you have seen him flash the identical smile at reporters, the President, starving Biafran babies, and housewives in Queens. One of his aides recently complained that he has adopted the Rockefeller's style of laughing: a big bellylaugh with his tongue hanging...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Goodell: A Freshman Senator Bucking the Party Line | 10/14/1969 | See Source »

...leash that leads from his neck to the Oval Office. As sometime policymakers themselves, Eisenhower's James Hagerty and L.B.J.'s Bill Moyers were allowed latitude in talking to the press. But this is Ziegler's first big Government job. He left a Los Angeles advertising firm to work on the campaign and after Nix-en's victory, moved his wife and two daughters to a colonial-style house in suburban Virginia. He sits in on many top-level meetings, but he has little, it any, say about what will be made public. That seems fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press Secretaries: I'll Check It Out | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

Married. James Roosevelt, 61, eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a former U.S. Congressman, now a director of a Geneva-based international investment firm; and Mary L. Winskill, 32, a British schoolteacher; he for the fourth time (he was granted a divorce last month from his third wife, Gladys Owens Roosevelt, who stabbed him in May); in a private ceremony; in Hyde Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 10, 1969 | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

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