Word: forays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next foray abroad was to Bonn for talks with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, a free-market economist with scant affection for socialists. Wilson was attentive, polite and respectful toward German dreams of reunification, a hard line toward Moscow, and the recovery of the lands lost to Poland. Wilson did much to soften the traditional anti-German image of the Labor Party, and Erhard was considerably charmed. Britain's new leader returned home with a German promise to buy more British goods to help offset the sterling drain that results from maintenance of the British army on the Rhine...
...author of The Human Side of Urban Renewal (Ives Washburn: 1960.), who recently joined the TIME staff. While Breckenfeld spent eight days casting a critical eye on old and new Philadelphia, Senior Editor A. T. Baker, Writer Douglas Auchincloss and Researcher Nancy Gay Faber made a one-day foray into the city, and TIME correspondents reported on the renewal progress in a dozen other U.S. cities...
...countryside for votes, while Luci Baines did her part by frug-dancing up a storm wherever she went. More and more, Johnson journeyed back and forth across the U.S., drinking in huge draughts of adoration from the crowds, shaking thou- sands of proffered hands until his fingers bled. Each foray into the crowds satiated him only for the moment, as if such experience was a narcotic that required constant renewal...
...Hartford, Conn., in Burlington, Vt., Manchester, N.H., and in Portland, Me., Lyndon exhorted the flailing, roaring mobs to join him in the "Great Society," and followed his speeches again with the bruising foray into the arms of well-wishers. In Baltimore, where he addressed the students and faculty at Johns Hopkins University, he got the same treatment, autographed a baseball and the plaster cast on a youth's broken hand, dandled a tot, made it a point to praise Johns Hopkins President Milton Eisenhower, Ike's brother, as a "distinguished" man who had provided the nation with "wise...
...most significant of these political civil rights groups to emerge over the summer is the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Curtis Hessler worked on the initial political foray of the MFDP out of Mississippi in Washington and Atlantic City and found the party occasionally naive, often disorganized. His careful analysis of the lobbying efforts of the FDP leading up to the convention is a remarkable story, one that could not have occured five years...