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...Escalation" is one of those windy words that are foisted on the public by military bureaucrats, interminably parroted by the press and kept in the vernacular long after losing any real meaning. Though the word-let alone its antonym, de-escalation-appears in neither Webster's Second nor the Oxford English dictionary, it has become synonymous with the U.S. commitment to Viet Nam. More specifically, it has become a pejorative term encompassing any American increase in the level of fighting...
Vague and inchoate, it is directed toward at least three targets: the "Anglo," for his cavalier indifference to Latin contributions to Southwest history and culture; the Negro, for having won aid and attention by rioting in city slums while the Mexican-American kept his cool in his own ghetto; and his own people, for their self-defeating pride and insistence on remaining aliens in their ancestral homeland. The Mexican-American, after all, is predated in the Southwest by only the buffalo and the Plains Indian; he has never put his psychological signature to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ceded...
...with their second child, are popular with the mass of the people. Schooled by his father since childhood in the art of kingship, Constantine ascended the throne at 23. But, for all his youth, he has proved to be an able leader. Until last week at least, he had kept Greece on the path of constitutional monarchy in the face of heavy pressures from both ends of the political spectrum. He has kept the country closely tied to NATO. In recent years, Greece has become an associate member of the European Common Market, and its economic growth rate has risen...
During Saturday's meeting, though, the group's arguments kept running up against Radcliffe's financial squeeze -- the $200 it saves in food costs for every girl who moves off does not begin to make up for the $1250 it loses in room and board fees. And Radcliffe, Mrs. Bunting pointed out, needs the money...
...Peters kept the inning alive by hitting a slow grounder to short that Cornell's Chris Ritter had trouble throwing to first, and suddenly Harvard had the bases loaded...