Word: give
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women assembled in a rude, tin-roofed shed behind a convincing replica of George Washington's Mount Vernon home, only 20% larger. Barrett is ripe with other combat wisdom: "If you bring [an enemy] down, don't run up to him so he can shoot you back. Give him time to die ... When things break down there's going to be an initial surge of people from the cities. They'll kill you for a can of sardines ... You should band together with a few other families, because you're going to need...
...Kennedy victory poses even more imponderables for Republicans. If the Democratic tide runs toward Kennedy, would the G.O.P. want to field its aging front runner, 68-year-old Ronald Reagan, against a much younger, dynamic Senator? At the moment, many party pros say no. That answer would seem to give an advantage to John Connally, 62, who is Kennedy's equal as a tub thumper. If Connally turns out to be unacceptable to rank-and-file Republicans, they might turn either to Howard Baker or George Bush. Both lack flair as campaigners, but they have long experience in Washington, they...
...Pigs and first widened the war in Viet Nam and saw almost none of his main legislative proposals pass Congress. Americans have a sense, says Theodore H. White, the chronicler of Presidents, "that Jack Kennedy's Administration was the last one in which it seemed that politics could give people control of their destiny...
...state explicitly that Senate approval would be required for any extension, beyond its scheduled expiration at the end of 1981, of the protocol that is to limit such key weapons as the mobile intercontinental ballistic missile and the ground-or sea-launched cruise missile. Another Byrd provision would give legally binding force to the personal assurances made to Carter by Brezhnev that the Soviet Union will produce no more than 30 of its new supersonic Backfire bombers per year...
Failure to approve the plan at the next defense ministers' meeting in Brussels in December, it is feared, could perpetuate a serious military imbalance. Although Moscow loudly claims that the new NATO missiles would give the West a perilous "strategic advantage," NATO planners, as well as the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, estimate that they would at best achieve nuclear parity on the Continent. In conventional weapons, Moscow and its Warsaw Pact allies have a decided superiority...