Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow Amurricun," I am appalled at the President's apparent concept of "judicious restraint" applied this week in the Gulf of Tonkin. If a neighbor's child hits yours, do you cut off your neighbor's hand-and then proudly proclaim your "limited and fitting response" because you didn't kill both parents? I am disappointed that my country has chosen to play the role of the strong young father stomping around the world with a bomb on his shoulder...
When North Vietnamese PT boats attacked American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin for the second time last Tuesday, it was instantly clear that our previously planned cover on another subject had to be scrapped. To tell about the new crisis in Asia, any number of individuals were suitable for the cover, beginning with the President of the United States, who made the decision to strike back at North Viet Nam. By Wednesday noon, however, we had settled on the U.S. supreme commander in the Pacific, who bears immediate responsibility for the operations and the massive buildup in his vast...
...border and violent gulf...
...assume that a majority of the electorate favors all provisions of this bill. I disagree. And only a national referendum could prove one of us wrong. If the American Mainstream has truly become a polluted effluent bound for the Gulf of Socialism, I will swim upstream with Barry -where the water is clean, the air pure, and the trees tall. This is where the American Dream was spawned...
...this has led to the most frenzied trading in mining stocks in history. Over the past two months, more than 1 billion shares in Canadian mining companies have changed hands on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and more than 14 million shares of Texas Gulf have traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Brokers figure that half a dozen mining companies have raised between $4,000,-000 and $6,000,000 by floating new shares. Some of the funds have already slipped back across the border, are being used by United Comstock Lode Lines to reopen the dormant Comstock gold mine...