Word: hardened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knack for sketching a problem in broad perspective, and a talent for hammering out explicit courses of action. Last week he attended the meeting of the National Security Council, took part in the intensive, two-hour session with Kennedy in the White House where plans for Berlin began to harden. From time to time, he sat in on the President's talks with official visitors. He made himself available to the White House team on problems far removed from the military. Over and over again, Kennedy staffers were heard to say: "Let's go ask Taylor about this...
...stands up to Mauler, is a parody figure mostly modeled on Shaw's Major Barbara-a Salvation Army-type lassie who belongs to an evangelical group called "The Black Straw Hats." She tries to soften Mauler's heart toward the workers' plight, while he tries to harden her mind toward the workers' wickedness. In the end, starved and dying, she proclaims that only violence will improve the world...
...Gaulle asked Bourguiba 1) to help convince the F.L.N. leaders that he was in earnest, 2) to urge on them the wisdom of progressing by stages so that chaos, bloodshed or disorder could be avoided. French public opinion would instantly harden against any policy that seemed to threaten the large and frightened European minority in Algeria, he warne,d. Without making any specific promise, De Gaulle hinted he would soon release from prison a top F.L.N. leader, Mohammed ben Bella. Bourguiba did not press him. "One does not haggle with De Gaulle," he said. "He is too big for that...
...black-skinned or Spanish-speaking migrant child lives in a world so alien to U.S. culture that missionaries enter mi grant camps to harden themselves for Asia and Africa. The child is a full-fledged field hand at nine-often at six. When he invades a new area, crowded schools wink at attendance laws. Falling behind, he quits school by the fourth grade. He is the nation's greatest single source of illiteracy, and by that handicap, condemned to repeat the hopeless life of his parents. He desperately needs education-and a sense of worth...