Word: partially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General, who planned the greatest invasion in history, the invasion of Normandy, allowing those 1,500 brave Cubans to go into the Bay of Pigs there without having first destroyed the enemy air power or providing air cover." Nixon also offered his current solution for Cuba: throw up a "partial blockade" to cut off oil shipments to Castro, which would "have the effect, probably, of bringing the Communist government down...
...advocate an invasion or an occupation," said he in a letter that ran in the Washington Post two days after Lippmann's column appeared. What he wanted all along, said Pulliam, was "a forceful American policy, aimed at Castro's isolation and eventual overthrow" by partial blockade or quarantine. "The day President Kennedy proclaimed the American quarantine last October, we wrote that the Russians would accept it, while a lot of 'liberal' commentators, including Mr. Lippmann, expected the Russians to 'challenge' the American Navy or to start a nuclear war." Whooped Publisher Pulliam...
...Partial Immunity. Most alarming to many doctors was a New York City outbreak of bronchiolitis and viral pneumonia among children. Some hospitals reported them twice as prevalent as ever before. And for this the Asian A-2 virus was not to blame. In many cases, the guilty microbe was one of the parainfluenza viruses...
...influenza D. It has now been found around the world. At one time or another, nearly every child in the U.S. gets infected with paraflu 1, and the illness is most likely to be severe in the very young. The resulting antibody may last a lifetime, but gives only partial immunity: an adult can be reinfected with the same virus, though he may get nothing worse than a cold...
...discovered in Letting Go was a great prairie of writing space. "It was like being an artist and discovering a big canvas. It was the most exhilarating writing experience I ever had." Updike, who is a miniaturist, calls Roth's novel "overblown," but what limits the book to partial success is not its great size. Rather it is Roth's treatment of his hero, a tedious young English instructor who looks within himself and finds the world empty. Roth chose to write of this frail spirit in the first person, and trapped himself by accepting the instructor...