Word: loath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Israeli commanders believe that the Soviet Squadron serves a vital purpose beyond familiarizing pilots with their enemies' planes. The Israelis have been so successful in capturing enemy equipment, which Westerners get to see, that the Soviets may well be loath to put their most sophisticated weaponry into Arab hands...
...bank robbers are far more sophisticated than Bonnie and Clyde. Although retired Boston Bank Robber Teddy Green cheerfully calls cameras "the best weapons the banks have," bankers complain that robbers are too often disguised with ski masks, wigs, dark glasses or turned-up turtleneck sweaters. Officers are also loath to adopt extreme precautions. One that has done so is Washington's aptly named Security Bank. After three robberies at one branch in 55 days last summer, Security decided to lock the front door permanently. Customers enter through a rear door, and tellers work behind tall panes of Plexiglas...
...Clinton Anderson of New Mexico, a liberal on most issues, nominated Long. Anderson sits on the Senate Finance Committee, which handles tax legislation and is chaired by Long. At 73, Anderson had little to gain by a Kennedy victory and was loath to risk his chairman's displeasure...
...beating upon sand, prolonged payments deficits erode confidence in the value of currencies. France's current difficulties spring from soaring wage rates, the price of quelling last June's student-worker uprising. Whatever their specific cause, enduring payments deficits expose a weakness that political leaders are understandably loath to recognize: lack of economic selfdiscipline...
Modest Yet Vigorous. Such measures would cost money-money that the Europeans, protected for nearly 20 years by the U.S. nuclear umbrella, have always been loath to spend. In his 16th and farewell appearance before the ministers, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was as candid as Lemnitzer, telling the European partners that they must carry a greater share of the burden. Rusk and U.S. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford offered only an estimated $50 million in fresh U.S. aid. They also promised to return to Europe for maneuvers two infantry brigades and four tactical Air Force squadrons that had been...