Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burden of Johnson's speeches on Viet Nam was that he would continue the conflict on his terms-a limited ground war against the Communists coupled with restricted bombing raids against the North. Implicit in his position, however, was an invitation to negotiations. Typically, the week yielded a spate of hints about breakthroughs on the diplomatic front; the U.S., for example, was talking to the Swiss about yet another feeler from Hanoi that talks would begin if the Americans would only quit bombing the North...
...this shifting ground, Lyndon Johnson and Eugene McCarthy meet next week in what was to have been a clear two-man duel. Aside from contending for blocks of the state's 59 convention votes, each candidate has a large psychological stake in the primary. McCarthy's is to prove that New Hampshire was only the beginning for him, Johnson's to show that New Hampshire was an aberration. But Robert Kennedy, who is not on the ballot, and has not campaigned there, may become a decisive enough factor by means of write-in votes to make...
...auditorium, to be situated on the open ground behind Kresge Hall, will be designed with movable partitions to accommodate both large and small gatherings. It will seat almost twice as many persons as the Business School's largest present facility...
...hobo as a mass phenomenon. But he still flourishes in the national mythology. And his descendants live, says Allsop, in the hippies "on the lam from the daily grind," in the restless American who prizes and praises his ultimate freedom of choice, "the right to move on to new ground if the old is intolerable, infertile, or just too stalely famili...
...that waiting room of the mid-20th century, the nervous, noisy jetport. For travelers in a hurry, it is all too often a place for enforced contemplation, while airlines catch up with their weather-beaten schedules. Novelist Hailey gives airports his familiar Hotel treatment, and the result may permanently ground all his readers...