Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Achilles heel is our resolve," said Westmoreland. "Your continued strong support is vital to the success of our mission." But he roused his audience to its greatest enthusiasm when, toward the very end, he declared forcefully: "Backed at home by resolve, confidence, patience, determination and continued support, we will prevail in Viet Nam over the Communist aggressor...
...tough" policy. Putting these youths on the receiving end of police bullets or nightstick often opens their eyes to right and wrong. The hard facts of the situation require that, oftentimes, gang guns will have to be met by police guns if law and order is to prevail in ghetto streets...
...leaving that last word adangle, Wilder presses home his conviction that man's story is unending and that come what may, man will prevail. The thought is unarguable, but its demonstration leaves the reader with characters who are merely symbols and a story that is an abstraction. After visiting Coaltown, readers may want to hop a fast freight to Grover's Corners, the setting of Our Town, whose scale was smaller but whose philosophy seemed almost as tangible as its strawberry sodas. Thornton Wilder remains engaging, thoughtful, a man to meet. Yet in this book, one longs...
...managers before their time"-finally lost their power to manage. Always opposed to specialization, in the belief that the really wise man can know and do everything, they were unable and unwilling to cope with modern knowledge. Suddenly, the old formulas no longer worked. Numbers, concepts, labels could not prevail against modern guns and machines. So long unshaken in its sense of superiority, China in the last years of the Manchu rule suffered military defeat and economic exploitation. A social order based on harmony with nature was shattered by the West's promethean energy. Suddenly, it was devastatingly clear...
...Murville hinted that Britain still seemed too preoccupied with faraway commitments to qualify for De Gaulle's Europe. Undiscouraged, Wilson planned to continue his present round of Common Market capitals (he goes to Brussels and Luxembourg this week), in hopes that those on the inside could somehow prevail on De Gaulle to change his mind...