Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Critics insist that McNamara was the last of the President's top national advisers to counsel a course of military restraint and diplomatic flexibility in Vietnam...
...liberal on academic questions and I'm hoping my department will go along 100 per cent, but other members may be a bit more reluctant," Jack M. Stein, chairman of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, said. At the department meeting December 12, he said he "will insist that we come out with some kind of position...
...word for our quarrel to be buried beneath the waves." The President suggested that "a neutral ship on a neutral sea would be as good a meeting place as any" for the U.S. and North Viet Nam to begin negotiations-"so long as one did not insist that the other walk on water and work a miracle alone...
...Straitjacket. Though Treasury and Federal Reserve officials deny that any such straitjacket is seriously being considered, private economists back from Washington briefings nevertheless insist that it is. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, they say, has been threatening that the Administration will seek authority for all types of controls if Congress spurns a tax increase...
Rustin has scheduled, in black and white, exactly what steps should be taken to eliminate poverty in the United States by 1975: "We propose and insist that poverty in America can and must be abolished within ten years." Be assured this is no whistling in the dark: "Before we kneel supinely before the false idol of what we 'cannot afford,' we should appraise realistically the potentials of the U.S. economy...