Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary-General U Thant was predictably pious (and for a neutral official, inappropriately political), expressing "deep regret" over the bombing of "heavily populated areas" and plugging his pet pipedream that by halting the air strikes the U.S. could end the war. The Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano viewed with concern, fretting that "news such as this cannot be learned without regret and also without worries." Charles de Gaulle, to nobody's surprise, joined his Moscow hosts in an expression of "alarm" and a warning of the "increasing instability" in Southeast Asia,which-he forbore to note...
...thirtieth of the times that a pi meson hit a deuterium nucleus, out came the eta meson, which decays into three pions. The pions streaked through the bubble chamber, the positive leaving a line that curved to the right, the negative peeling off to the left, and the neutral leaving no path at all. After analyzing photographs of 1,441 sets of such tracks, the Franzinis determined that in more than half of the cases the positively charged pion was therefore traveling faster than its negative counterpart...
...convention, Rolvaag delegates wore buttons proclaiming "I'd rather fight than switch" -to which Keith partisans' buttons replied: "I'd rather switch than lose." Though Keith led from the outset, he fell short of the required two-thirds majority until the 20th ballot. Humphrey, scrupulously neutral during the convention, came out of seclusion to embrace Keith, noted: "You can't live forever on the older generation...
...first labor contract in its history, recognizing two AFL locals as sole bargaining agents for the dining hall workers. But an "inside" union, the Harvard Employees Representative Association, challenged the AFL for the loyalty of the buildings and grounds workers, and the Administration's efforts to preserve a neutral stand during this dispute became more difficult as the year went...
There was more student support for Sorokin than for President Conant. A CRIMSON poll in November showed that three-quarters of the undergraduates favored American neutrality. Peace rallies grew in size and frequency. In April, 1940, a CRIMSON editorial probably expressed the feelings of most when it said. "The United States should ... face the fact that neutral countries in Europe will be crushed.... If only blood can wash away the strange quirks in the human mind that breed war... there is still no reason why it must be done with American blood...