Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitably, such non-nuclear confrontations sometimes lead to armed conflict. Then, as the U.S. has learned, and is still learning in Viet Nam, the limits of power expand into exasperation. Determined not to use its nuclear might, a big power must be doubly cautious with its conventional weapons. For no...
There are other limitations. A strong nation can shrug off the disapproval of its friends-but not for long, as Britain learned to its dismay when world opinion forced it to retreat from Suez in 1956. It does not follow, however, that when friends agree with a course of action...
If that happens, the U.S. will be turning its back on contemporary history. John F. Kennedy learned at the Bay of Pigs that timid application of power can be worse than no exercise of power at all. Putting his experience into practice, he acted like a different leader during the...
Dossiers & Photographs. The city dwellers learned in the Communist offensive what South Viet Nam's peasants have long recognized: the Communists' ruthless application of terrorism in waging war. The attackers were ordered to seek out and kill the families of all South Vietnamese officers they could find, as...
I first learned of Mr. Wilson's decision to retire in late December of 1966: the final decision on publishing the Watson book here was made in May 1967.