Word: pleasingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
"For God's sake," says Fulbright, "this is becoming a major war! I assume that this is still a democracy, that the Senate has a role to play in foreign affairs. The hearings are a part of that role." He adds: "The easy way is to go along, to...
A Notable Silence. Despite all his pleas for tolerance of repressive regimes abroad, Fulbright has never voted for a federal civil rights bill and has remained notably silent on the Negro's drive for full citizenship. His public indifference to the race issue has not hurt him in Arkansas...
The recent announcement that the United States will increase its commitment in Vietnam to the Korean-war level of 400,000 men by this Spring indicates that the Administration is losing hope of negotiations. Moderate critics of the war, such as Senators Kennedy and Mansfield, were still issuing pleas for...
Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History, opposed the march because he believes the pleas for peace were misdirected. "We did not want to fight: the struggle was thrust upon us." Handlin commented. Appeals for cessation of the war must be addressed to the men in Hanoi and Peking.
Blackout. Last week Kaunda's pleas for British troops carried a new urgency. A narrowly averted incident on the border with Rhodesia led him to pull his own small army back to Lusaka to avoid an accidental clash. In the rail center of Livingstone, the town's first...