Word: forayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cool." He defended the Cambodia decision anew, but he also added that the troops would be coming out faster than anticipated. While not withdrawing from his tactical rationale for the Cambodian venture, Nixon gave an impression that was very different from the belligerent patriotism with which he announced the foray...
Edward V. Hanrahan, the Cook County state's attorney whose men had staged the foray, still insisted that the police version was true. He was forced to abandon the case, he explained, because new evidence showed that important information supplied by the Chicago police laboratory had been faulty. Also, some of the evidence would have been inadmissible because of the method by which it was obtained. But Hanrahan's explanation, like the entire police account of the incident, was clouded by elisions and puzzling inconsistencies. Bobby Rush, Illinois Panther chief, seized on the statement to charge that...
...risk 'monocracy.'" The little electric trolley that runs between the Senate office buildings and the Capitol is fun for all ages. The gang poured aboard. Bator smiled. "The last time I rode this trolley, I was lobbying for some obscure textile bill and I thought I was on a foray into enemy territory...
Campus Violence. On campus the Cambodian foray brought new eruptions. At comparatively quiescent Princeton, nearly 2,000 students immediately called a "provisional" strike. At New Haven, which was broadly advertised in advance as a new Chicago, demonstration organizers cooled the crowds almost as rebuttal of Nixon's charge of anarchy (see story, page 79). In effect, Nixon reawakened the dormant peace movement. The New Mobilization Committee announced a White House demonstration...
...potential staging area for the Communists?raised the question of whether the U.S. really would or could confine itself to the border areas. There seemed to be a suggestion, not heard in Washington for some time, of what one Administration critic called "open-endedness" about the conflict. The U.S. "foray" presents the North Vietnamese with a significant military challenge. They must either take it lying down (not likely, in view of their past record) or retaliate somewhere, some time. Such retaliation, the Administration made clear, would lead to further escalation...