Word: grounds
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...from in New York, proposed that the U.N. send a naval patrol into the gulf. If the U.N. failed to act, he said, the U.S. should step in with other interested nations. Such a seaborne U.N. patrol, he explained, "does not raise many of the same problems as stationing ground troops within the territory of any country." In the House, 96 Representatives pledged support of President Johnson in "whatever action may be necessary to resist aggression against Israel...
Punctuated by an unquiet, 24-hour interlude of truce to celebrate the birth day of Buddha, the ground war in Viet Nam quickly made up for lost time with more of the ferociousness and high casualties that have marked it in recent weeks. The Marines ended their sweep through the Demilitarized Zone on the eve of the truce, but quickly thrust back into it when a battalion of Marines to the south was hit by fire from Hill 117 inside the DMZ. The battalion was joined by a second, and the two counterattacked. After a fierce battle in which...
...itself as "the Lindbergh Line." President Franklin Roosevelt compared him to a "copperhead." Lindbergh resigned from the Army Air Corps Reserve. His attitude may have been a kind of proud echo. Twenty-four years before, his own Congressman father had denounced World War I with equal vigor (on the ground that it was a conspiracy of the "money trust" ruled by Eastern bankers) and had been similarly reviled. After Pearl Harbor, old rancors seemed lost in the community of defense, but Roosevelt refused to give him back his commission ("You can't have an officer who thinks...
Under retiring President Victor L. Butterfield, Wesleyan's "College Plan" has accented independent study for undergraduates. Similarly, Wesleyan's freewheeling Ph.D. programs (in biology, physics, math and world music) allow students to ground themselves broadly in the liberal arts, combatting complaints of the stifling specialization of most doctoral studies...
...rebel officers and men quitted their jades, and threw themselves over the fences to gain the swamp." Tarleton "returned to the camp of the rebels, burned and destroyed their whole baggage, and . . . several houses." Actually, the "rebel camp" was the town of Bedford-which Tarleton carefully burned to the ground, barns, cattle...