Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...someone else to test the bridge before walking across? It is cruel and tragic that McCarthy, a man of proven moral and intellectual values, a man who can and did stand firm in the face of possible disaster, may be defeated by the so-called magic of the Kennedy name and the synthetic charm of young Mr. Kennedy's smile. One wonders whom and what R.F.K. will be willing to sell out next...
...nearly everything that should have brought early victory, four years were required to bring about Lee's sur render at Appomattox. However, unlike Lincoln, who tested-and found wanting-more than half a dozen generals before he found a winner in Grant, Lyndon Johnson has yet to name his second field commander...
Against all logic and reason, the North seemed unable to win in the East. The West was a different story, however, and slowly the federal vise tightened on the vital Mississippi. One improbable name, Ulysses S. Grant, stood out, and as defeat followed defeat in the East, Northerners still remembered his blunt demand for the "immediate and unconditional" surrender of Fort Donelson in 1862: "I propose to move immediately upon your works." Donelson surrendered. Finally in March 1864, Lincoln himself remembered, and Grant was given charge of all the Northern armies, Moving East to take personal command...
Under Nasser's plan, a set of nationwide elections will be held to name new delegates to the Arab Socialist Union, which will convene July 23. One of the delegates' main tasks will be to draft a constitution that will guarantee many of the rights that the students have demanded. Nasser promised that it would ensure, for example, complete freedom for Egypt's muzzled press, freedom of thought and an independent judiciary. There was only one catch. The constitution, Nasser declared, will not go into effect until the Arabs regain the lands lost to Israel...
...China News Agency, covering a reception for 10,000 army officers given last week by Map, made it clear that many of those invited would soon become victims of the purge. The agency found only ten of the officers secure enough in their jobs to be mentioned by name, whereas in the past it had seldom listed fewer than...