Word: mands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, Nixon can hardly expect the sniping to cease altogether while he gets his bearings. Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko mocked Nixon for having won a "mand," or "about half a mandate." A mand, Royko wrote, means something to the effect that "We've got to hire somebody for the job, so it might as well be you. But try not to mess things up, huh?" Drew Pearson, an inveterate Nixonphobe, tried to be considerably more damaging with a story-given in a speech rather than a column-that Nixon visited a psychiatrist some years ago because...
...Airborne Division for a reconnaissance mission. His description of the ordeal contains some of the best combat narrative to come out of Viet Nam. After a daylong fight, in which the 40-man patrol was whittled down by the North Vietnamese, Just found himself trapped in a vulnerable com mand post. It was filling up fast with wounded. Suddenly, the enemy began to lob grenades at them. Suddenly, Just was seized by the realization that there was no way to stop them...
...squad slipped through the heavily guarded perimeter of Tan Son Nhut, nearly reached a parking apron filled with warplanes be fore they were discovered and shot down. As it turns out, the Viet Cong made a mistake by pressing the city so hard: they jolted the U.S. high com mand into action...
corporations by Frank S. Endicott, di rector of placement at Northwestern University, shows that members of the class of '67 who are not headed for military service will be able to com mand an average of nearly $30 more per month than did last year's graduates. As usual, the corporate demand will be greatest for accountants and engineers, and students with master's degrees will do even better than B.A.s...
Underpinning this imaginative concept lies Lyndon Johnson's oft-repeated -and more often misunderstood-de mand for "creative federalism." Its simple essential theory is that Washington has the power and the money, but that its application can be most wisely prescribed by those closest to the problem-the municipalities themselves. There, ultimately, lies the greatest if not the only hope for the American city...