Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli commandos had expected to find only half a dozen Arab planes on the ground; instead, they found and destroyed 13. Israel also miscalculated the raid's explosive effect on world opinion, despite the commandos' care not to take a life for the one lost in Athens. President Johnson publicly termed the raid "serious and unwise" and used considerably stronger language in private. In the United Nations, the U.S. joined the other 14 members of the Security Council in unanimously condemning Israel in the harshest of diplomatic terms for its "premeditated military action in violation of its obligations...
...fact, Galbraith has recently called for the "constitutional reform" of Harvard on at least partly the ground that the university will then be better able to deal with student radicals. (One wonders what Gailbraith thinks of Dean Ford's idea that "we need not surrender the very concept of differentiation of roles as among governing boards, faculty members, and students" for that is precisely what Galbraith wants to surrender, although as a radical I'm a bit suspicious of people who want to "deal" with...
...course, there had to be speeches. Reagan's was mercifully brief, telling the men that the "last thing you need is a speech from me." But Reagan ended up with the rhetoric of a simpler kind of homecoming--welcoming "you valiant men"--and Sen. Smith drove it into the ground in her speech. After she was done, the proud little mayor of San Diego took ten minutes to tell the men how just really delighted his city was to host this happy reunion...
President Nixon appoints Claire Booth Luce to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. A committee of Harvard dignitaries attends the dedication of Mather House which crumbles to the ground when Nathan Pusey strikes it squarely with a champagne bottle. The bottle remains intact...
...high-speed trains have been financed under the $90 million High Speed Ground Transportation Act. It calls for joint Government-industry sponsorship of demonstration projects to see if high-speed service will help revive passenger trains and unsnarl highways and airways. It also aims to provide a model for similar rail service between such cities as Chicago and Detroit, Seattle and San Francisco...