Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threaten "massive retaliation at places of our choosing" in response to lesser Communist attacks that could be better met by conventional forces or even guerrilla warfare (see box). The U.S.'s ability to wage all-out nuclear war and yet do little against border incursions has come to hamper the diplomat as well as the general. Last week Secretary of State Dean Rusk was revealed as the author of a memo to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, advocating the new doctrine...
Speaking before a meeting of the Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists on "New Faces in Foreign Policy," Cheever examined the qualifications of McGeorge Bundy, Walt W. Rostow Panl Nitze, and other key Presidential advisers. Cheever voiced fear that a plethora of special assistants might hamper the President's all-important relations with his Secretary of State, or interfere with the unified direction of his foreign policy...
...nine-hour bus ride, with stops for meals and repairs, did not appear to hamper Harvard's performance. The varsity had originally chartered a DC-6 for the trip, but a flight engineers' strike at 3 a.m. Saturday killed all hope for going to Princeton...
...prying public. The proof that she had won her intramural war of independence was evident on a recent cruise aboard Jack's sloop Victura, when Jack and the Radziwills sat with her in the stern, while she passed around oeufs en gelee and vin rosé from her hamper, and her Kennedy in-laws sprawled in the bow and lunched on peanut butter sandwiches and Cokes from a picnic basket...
...somebody cuts Jack, she is unforgiving," says Ethel. "She has an elephant's memory." When Kennedy's political activities began to mount, Jackie worried "because he never would eat lunch, and kept getting thinner." One day her butler turned up in Jack's office with a hamper, expertly laid out a gleaming white cloth on his desk, then served a savory hot lunch in a baby's hot plate, "the kind you eat to the bottom and find a bunny rabbit." Impressed, Jack began to invite friends in for lunch, and the daily hamper load grew...