Word: maneuverable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The ship-clearing operation had begun smoothly enough. For two days Israeli soldiers idly watched from the east bank while Egyptian tugs probed south of the midway port of Ismailia to chart an exit channel past sunken obstacles (scuttled ships, downed jets). Then, breaking a tacit understanding with Israel that...
At week's end the pace was no faster. The Senate settled down for perhaps weeks of delay while Southerners maneuver against a relatively minor bill to improve enforcement of civil rights statutes; the bill would make it a federal offense to prevent the exercise of certain rights, such...
The dollar-bolstering campaign that President Johnson sprang on an unsuspecting world during the first day of 1968 was conceived in secrecy worthy of a major military maneuver. Even as Johnson was winging around the globe last month, cables were flashing between Washington and his silver-and-blue jet, Air...
Nonetheless, ABC greeted Geneen's news with what Vice President James C. Hagerty called "a sort of relief." After all, the ITT deal pretty much constrained the network from seeking other sources of help. Now free to maneuver, ABC may well issue new securities to raise the capital it...
Stirring Vision. In his application of naked power, Johnson is an acknowledged virtuoso as his Viet Nam critics ruefully concede. Despite thunderous criticism of his intervention in the Dominican Republic, the President's swift application of military strength followed by an intense diplomatic campaign proved, in the end, a successful...