Word: interpretative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quick Win or Fast Fade? But how? Under unremitting pressure from advocates of both the quick win and the fast fade, Johnson has hewed to this middle course all along. He is loath to ease the pressure, fearing that Hanoi would interpret such a move as a prelude to a pullout. He is also reluctant to risk any major intensification of the war, not only because it would entail vast additional expenditures and mobilization of the reserves, but because it might bring in Peking or Moscow. The President observed last week that he has not permitted bombing of Haiphong Harbor...
...native vil lage of Haworth, the better to hear the moaning of the Yorkshire moors that the girls loved. She has read 20 years' worth of Blackwood's magazine to trace the sources of Charlotte's erudition and deciphered trunkfuls of childish scrawl to interpret her juvenilia. If the result is not the vivid portrait that Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell wrote right after Charlotte's death, it is more complete and accurate-an exhaustive source of Bront...
Delegates to the conference had another reason, provided by recent political events, for joy. As fundamentalists who interpret the Bible literally, and who confidently await the second coming of the Lord, they are almost as enthusiastic as Zionists about Israel's victory over Egypt. For that, the Pentecostalists claim, is a sign that God's kingdom is closer than ever...
...quality that I know of," but to that must be added the opportunity cost. If you go to summer school you can probably not manage a full-time job, and scholarship students are required to earn money during the summer. Crooks would like the Financial Aid Office to interpret that requirement more flexibly, but the Summer School itself controls no scholarship funds...
...here in quite a while who will defend the Administration's policy right down the line." This mounting "dovishness" puts partisan Democrats in a tenuous position; the national leader of their party will be in a tight election next vear, but should he defeat his Republican opponent, he might interpret his victory as a mandate for his present Vietnam policy...