Word: outsitting
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Whatever the North Vietnamese are waiting for, Harriman and his team seem determined to outsit them and outtalk them. Despite the first week's barren outcome, few anticipate that either side is about to break off the negotiations. "There is something adhesive about talks like this," said a U.S. diplomat. "Once they start, they tend to go on." The danger is that they could go on-and on-until patience erodes and pressures mount in support of a wider...
...Bladder Technique. Balancing all these factors, John Kennedy decided to talk and not test-for the time being. To Ambassador Dean in Geneva went instructions to continue trying to outsit the Russians (which Dean wryly calls "the bladder technique"). The faint hope was that U.S. patience and the pressure of world opinion might just wring out some Russian concession. "The stakes are too important." said President Kennedy, "for us to abandon the draft treaty we have offered at Geneva...
...collapse of his backbone. Said Glen: "I gave my all for you people, sitting there in Washington. But now I've got a wonderful brace. And in the Senate the man who works the hardest is the one who does the most sitting. With this brace, I can outsit them...
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