Word: forayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confined to Canada. More than twenty exiles living in Montreal risked the threat of arrest in the States to march in October's Moblization Against the War in Washington. "Americans in Exile," a self-styled "cadre patterned on the model afforded by Che Guevara," is presently organizing units to foray into the States to encourage others to follow the route that they have taken...
...that hit the U.S. embassy, were avowedly suicidal; few of them, even when they did seize towns or installations, managed to hold them for long. Some were promised reinforcements within 48 hours?and never got them?or were given food and ammunition for only five days of foray. Such recklessness of life deprived the Communists of some of their best men, since in many cases the attackers were highly trained demolition experts or battlewise guerrillas...
...belief that neutrality is essential if Canada is to contribute to any settlement of the Vietnam war. But the timidity of Canada's position on Vietnam has a less obscure basis--a well-founded respect for American power in the Canadian economy. Pearson has nonetheless made an occasional foray into the debate over Vietnam, notably in a Philadelphia speech in April, 1965, when he called for a halt in U.S. bombings of North Vietnam. He met with President Johnson a few days later at Camp David; Johnson was enraged by Pearson's initiative, and the two men did not meet...
...meeting place will often as not be one of some 300 "home headquarters"-private dwellings like the white clapboard crackerbox of University of New Hampshire Professor Glendon Gee in Somersworth (pop. 8,900), where Romney last week whizzed in for a 40-minute foray...
Those patrols have been annihilated before. For every bold, experimental foray there are bound to be many ambitious failures or cold, calculated imitations. Still, occasionally, one victory can change the world-or at least the part of it that produces films. Bonnie and Clyde is a conspicuous victory. It has proved to the industry that the "new movie" and "popular success" are not antithetical terms. Hollywood has sometimes acted as if money and art were incompatible. At worst, they can come together in a marriage of convenience. At best, they may even get to like each other...