Word: hawkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of the secret police, from his job as Deputy Premier and Party Secretary and demoting him to an obscure and less powerful post as head of the Russian trade unions. Shelepin had surrounded himself with a group of former Komsomol (youth league) officials who are hawkish in foreign policy, favor strict control of the intellectuals and are known as "metal eaters" because they stress heavy industry rather than consumer goods...
Whatever their anxiety over the war, few papers propose extreme solutions, whether hawkish or dovish. In fact, they warn constantly against them and firmly counsel moderation...
What will the City Council do with the CNCV resolution? All the Council's own resolutions on Vietnam have been hawkish. Yet, "there is a possibility," McCarthy said Friday, "that the Council will adopt this [dove] statement ... anything can happen ... who knows?" That would be one sure way to keep the question off the ballot...
...usually hawkish Senate Armed Services Committee refused to appropriate funds for "fast deployment ships" which could bring thousands of GI's to an embattled nation with incredible--and disturbing--speed...
...Israel, the skirmishing at Suez notwithstanding, until the Arabs were rearmed and united-a condition that is not imminent. Nasser realizes, however, that he cannot coo too loudly without running the danger of being brushed aside as leader of the Arab left by someone like Boumediene. Even the most hawkish leader at the Cairo conference must have known deep down a horrifying thing: that if full-scale fighting broke out again, the Israeli army could undoubtedly occupy Cairo, Amman and Damascus within 48 hours. There would be practically nothing the weakened Arabs could do about...