Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCarthy began a "Telephone Revolution" with newspaper ads inviting supporters to call up and leave their names for an unofficial referendum designed to document the depth of disenchantment with the party's Establishment. Meantime, the Senator's aides are negotiating with TV networks for at least three half-hour broadcast slots prior to the convention, when the candidate will discuss the democratic process, the war, foreign policy and the urban crisis...
...Half a century before Lenin was born, omniscient Napoleon Bonaparte was concerned with Red revolutionism to the East. He turned his back on Britain, and valiantly drove his troops into a cruel Russian winter in a glorious effort to thwart the future threat of monolithic Communism...
...lost battle, Watts yielded its lessons, and Los Angeles' riot plan is now geared for all contingencies. Police response is carefully adjusted, like a Herman Kahn scenario, to the size of the disturbance?enough force to smother trouble quickly, but not enough to provoke greater resentment. In each division, half the patrol cars are always tagged for response to special riot alert; if the cars of one division should prove inadequate to halt a disturbance, half the cars in the city can be on the move within minutes. If half the department still cannot keep control, nearly the entire uniformed...
...often, Shaw hoped to shake his readers up, and succeeded brilliantly. The Preface is witty, and it is blunt; moreover, it is utterly serious in content. And it has lost none of its punch in a half century. Anyone interested in religion can profit from trying to match his mind against Shaw's here...
Braxton and the others spent two and a half days in Haiphong, during which time they toured the city and met with local officials...