Word: foe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that left him with a dozen scars from getting pitched through a plate-glass storefront-he reflected how the white man's brutality "was nudging me into a hatred of him." After his first walk through Harlem's streets, he was convinced that "Mister Ofay"-the white foe-"was the enemy now, the lord of this filthy ghetto." White people, he said, "were making it easy for me to hate white people." But always he looked instead for a better weapon than hatred...
...fact, the Governor had already pulled away from his only potential Democratic challenger. The same poll gave him a 33.1% lead over Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, a longtime foe, who greeted Brown's announcement with a four-page tirade castigating the Governor for everything from allowing "delay, confusion and influence peddling" in state affairs to letting leftists and "cynical mercenaries" take over the party. Countered Brown: "Mayor Yorty made a similar vicious attack on President John F. Kennedy, and that's all I have to say about that...
...speech read for him, said of the years since he began to fight the cold war: "It all seems to have been in vain. Memories are short and appetites for power and glory are insatiable. Old tyrants depart. New ones take their place. Old allies become the foe. The recent enemy becomes the friend. It's all very baffling and trying...
Wednesday, January 19 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The second week of this new twice-a-week series features Burgess Meredith as the Penguin -a fine-feathered foe of that dynamic duo, Batman and Robin...
...paper tiger, Communist China had long proclaimed Americans incapable of combat under such conditions-while prudently allowing North Viet Nam to fight its "war of liberation." The Americans turned out to be tigers, all right-live ones. With courage and a cool professionalism that surprised friend and foe, U.S. troops stood fast and firm in South Viet Nam. In the waning months of 1965, they helped finally to stem the tide that had run so long with the Reds...