Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever spoken more often or with greater conviction about the need to end war. In 1961, retiring to his 200-acre farm near Gettysburg, Pa.?the first home that he and Mamie ever owned?he raised cattle and tended the land. "I wanted to take a piece of ground like this that had been sort of worn out through improper use and try to restore it," he said a few years ago. "I just said that when I die I'm going to leave a piece of ground better than I found...
...Piece of Ground...
...Foreign Relations subcommittee on disarmament the week after he returned from his first tour of Viet Nam as Defense Secretary. As an eight-term Congressman from Wisconsin, he was used to committee hearings, and he knew how to make his point in them. During vigorous questioning, he stood his ground firmly. Rogers, a former Attorney General and ever the coolly prepared advocate, showed a reasoned, refreshingly pliant approach to questions that Laird handled with brusque assurance...
...fratricide is just becoming apparent. Black leadership now appears without direction. Whitney Young remains one of the two or three most influential black leaders, but many Negroes feel that he is trying to satisfy all factions. Roy Wilkins, despite the 450,000 membership of the N.A.A.C.P., has lost more ground than any other leader, with the decline of integration as the principal issue and the loss of the N.A.A.C.P.'s traditional adversary role. To be sure, the constituencies of older Negro activists are underestimated, especially in a press that publicizes the shocking more often than quiet accomplishment. "Some leaders...
...long had a strategy for simplifying and speeding the Paris peace talks, a strategy that has the virtue of reflecting the reality on the ground in Viet Nam. In essence, it aims at a partitioning of the issues. The U.S. and North Viet Nam would bilaterally negotiate military matters, the most important being the mutual withdrawal of their forces from South Vietnamese soil. The South Vietnamese government of President Nguyen Van Thieu and the National Liberation Front, the political organization of the Viet Cong, would meanwhile work out together the terms and conditions of their coexistence once the guns fall...