Word: know
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Security Affairs. The general stood and grumped: "I remember him. He was a crypto-left-winger when he was teaching at Harvard and a dangerous pinko when he was serving John Kennedy." Another former general in the group arose and said, "Curt, I can forgive you occasionally for not knowing what you're talking about. But in this case it's obvious you don't know who you're talking about. You've mixed up Henry Kissinger with Arthur Schlesinger." LeMay nodded sheepishly and sat down...
...instinct, another essential trait in an age when the only rapid communications were between a man's brain and hand. Kissinger, in A World Restored, quotes a line from Metternich: "I was born to make history, not to write novels, and if I guess correctly, this is because I know." As he helps Richard Nixon make history, Kissinger will have to make some knowing guesses himself, probably fateful ones. The U.S. can hope that Kissinger, a man of brilliant intellect, will guess correctly?and that Nixon guessed correctly in choosing...
...officers ranking as high as lieutenant colonel. The disparity in military status became embarrassing. In 1946, he was made a civilian employee of the Army,'with a salary of $10,000 and a captain's rank in the Army Reserve. But by the next year he was restless. "I know nothing," he told a friend. He won a Government scholarship that began his long association with Harvard...
...fighting and someone found a bottle of whisky and passed it around. The owner of the house is back now and, when told about the bottle, she smiles: "I suspected it was the Marines, but I didn't mind," she says. "The ARVN paratroopers took everything, you know. They came around with great sacks and took my husband's clothes, his shirts, his ties, all my clothes. The Viet Cong took nothing...
...highly charged nationalistic feelings involved in the I.P.C. case, the U.S. asked only that the junta pay Standard Oil a fair price for I.P.C.'s properties (Peru's Supreme Court had earlier set the figure at $142 million). If it does not, as the Peruvians well know, the U.S. would be forced under the provisions of the Hickenlooper Amendment to suspend its economic aid to Peru within six months after the seizure unless promising negotiations for equitable compensation are under way. At present, U.S. aid amounts to $34 million a year plus another $45 million in preferential purchases...