Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cohen and Bundy discussed negotiations. To the amazement of the students, the Secretary admitted that the North Vietnamese were willing to negotiate, but the State Department, after capturing several secret Communist documents, had reached the conclusion that the negotiations would only be a ploy to gain more time for the Viet Cong. Hanoi was not willing to negotiate on any sort of "reasonable terms." Bundy told the student leaders...
...left end early in the fourth quarter, Tyson came from out of nowhere to drop him on the one-yard line. Driven almost by instinct on a second-and-8 play in the same quarter, Tyson moved up from safety to stop Smith's slant off tackle for no gain...
Although Negro students by and large reject Detroit-style rioting as deplorable, they are willing to use the threat of violence to gain their campus goals. At no school has that threat proved more effective than at California's San Jose State College (enrollment: 23,000), where a mere 60 Negro students last month threatened to burn the campus down unless discrimination against them was stopped. The students' leader, Sociology Teacher Harry Edwards, a towering (6 ft. 8 in.) former San Jose basketball star, contended that Negro students could not find decent housing in San Jose, Negro athletes...
Johnson has everything to gain by succumbing to this pressure. By stopping the bombing he will rob his critics of their strongest argument. But, argue the hawks, there is no reason to stop the bombing. A halt would not bring Hanoi to the conference table; it would only result in increased American casualties as the North Vietnamese take advantage of the pause...
...this point, however, that the Administration has more to gain and nothing to lose by articulating its idea of a post-war Vietnam clearly, and articulating it in terms less intransigent than in the past...