Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some top-echelon planners believe that a total of 600,000 Americans will now be needed in Viet Nam instead of the 475,000 planned for the end of 1967. This week General William Westmoreland and his top Saigon manpower experts are to discuss in Washington the subject of ground reinforcements...
...majority of the 76-member body of lay and clerical experts had indeed agreed that it was time for a change. And the liberals wisely based their argument, for the most part, not on the impersonal and narrow ground of population control, but on the contention that contraception can contribute to a happier married life. "If they are to observe and cultivate all the essential val ues of marriage," said the majority report, "married people need decent and human means for the regulation of conception. They should be able to expect the collaboration of all, especially from men of learning...
...interested only in investigating Reporter Swietnicki. Questioned for hours on end by District Attorney John Garry II, Swietnicki said at one point that he had discussed his story beforehand with his managing editor, Robert Fichenberg. Later, Fichen-berg testified that he did not recall such a discussion. On that ground, Swietnicki was indicted for second-degree perjury-a somewhat recondite and rarely used charge having to do with the changing of testimony on an issue not pertinent to the main inquiry. He was duly tried, but acquitted...
After Phil Hall grounded out, Pete Kare-geannes started things going with a ground shot up the middle, but was caught stealing seconds later...
Organizationally: The program should be staged over time. Our first step should be to prepare to use the Spring Mobilization as a recruiting ground. Ideally, the need and the plan for civil disobedience should be made from the podium with a period of time during the rally devoted to actually committing people to civil disobedience, according to the plan above, so that by the end of the day it could be announced that a thousand people were committed to go to jail if our demands are not satisfied. People would also be committed back to their communities to organize others...