Word: gained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seventy-two per cent said that "the war is not worth it, when it is considered in terms of the damage it does weighed against the benefits we can expect to gain...
...Prospects. Eugene McCarthy stands to gain nothing personally from his almost quixotic venture. He has but two prospects: 1) to force the President to change his thinking and policies about the war some time between now and the Democratic Convention, or 2) to build an army of dissident Democrats for Bobby Kennedy to command eventually in a drive to deny Johnson a second full term...
...able man. Will he resign?" Last week Callaghan resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Harold Wilson moved him over to the Home Office and replaced him at the Treasury with Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, 48, a tough but suave economist who may be one of the few Laborites to gain from the par ty's recent embarrassments - provided that he can help extricate Britain from its present economic morass...
Gould and Fisk are super anti-heroes, playing for the highest stakes with little to gain but gain for its own sake; in one of Prince Erie's finest scenes, a shipboard dialog between Fisk and Gould, Gould reveals that his only interest in life is the satisfaction derived from having things, and Fisk laments quietly that he will never have a child. Though giants, both men are essentially impotent, and to Mayer--as to Welles--this is not a small part of the American myth, for their impotence is both a driving source of power and an ultimate source...
McCarthy has a solid record in the Senate and is well-equipped to conduct the kind of multi-issue campaign which will be needed to gain a significant number of votes. He has consistently supported civil rights measures, the poverty program, and aid to education. He was one of the first public figures to stand up to the Red-baiting tirades of Senator Joseph McCarthy. He started and led the campaign to bring the CIA under closer Congressional scrutiny. And as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he has sought a basic reassessment of the country's foreign...