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Unmentionable Word. His gamble paid off. In the resulting battle, the enemy lost four irreplaceable carriers and the momentum that had propelled him from victory to victory. For the Japanese, Midway became an unmentionable word. Nimitz indulged himself in a rare pun: "Perhaps we will be forgiven if we claim that we are about midway to our objective." Though more than three years of hard, bitter fighting remained, that single, three-day battle marked the turning point of the Pacific war, the beginning of the end of Japanese ambitions...
Stop Shooting! Led by Fulbright, several Senators insisted that the U.S. had adopted an "adamant attitude" against a negotiated settlement of the war. Rusk, who might have been forgiven a moment of exasperation at that point, replied levelly: "We have given them practically everything but South Viet Nam in an effort to find a basis for peace. We are not asking them to surrender a thing except their appetite to take over South Viet Nam by force. Now, on that I suggest somebody had better be adamant...
...when they sang "Where Did Our Love Go" everything was forgiven in one gigantic scream and the kids in the top row of the bleachers got up and danced. And we headed straight for the juke box in Tommy's Lunch to hear them all again...
...admitted last month. He regretted it, he said, but the choice was stark: "Either you get out or you play the game." Most newsmen appreciated his dilemma, but some took pleasure in needling him mercilessly about it. They had reason to do so, for they have never quite forgiven Arthur for writing in Foreign Affairs two years ago, that newspaper and magazine stories "are sometimes worse than useless when they purport to give the inside history of decisions; their relation to reality is often considerably less than the shadows in Plato's cave." So often...
...attended together." The charming Irishman floored La Fayette with a couple of well-oiled punches, sending him to the hospital for three days to have his gashed lip and chin patched up. Peter finally apologized for the "disagreeable incident." The count nobly agreed that "the whole thing should be forgiven as an affair between gentlemen," although "of course our lawyers are still conferring" about damages...