Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson campaign was launched in August, when New York's Senator Robert F. Kennedy looked like a threat. Ruefully, a presidential aide recalled how L.B.J. had topped Bobby by a mere 4,000 write-in votes in the 1964 preferential primary, and he was determined to prevent a repetition. Bernard Boutin, who masterminded Estes Kefauver's successful New Hampshire campaign in 1956 and John Kennedy's in 1960, quit as Small Business Administrator in midsummer, soon thereafter surfaced in Nashua, where he is heading a similar effort for L.B.J. When Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy entered...
...came the threat of a second war front in Asia-one which the U.S., hard pressed in Viet Nam, can scarcely afford. Apart from fueling anti-American polemics from Paris to Pyongyang, the incident raised grave questions in the West about the Johnson Administration's ability to prevent or respond effectively to Communist military initiatives in Southeast Asia or beyond...
...frailty is a genuine asset here, and she deserves an award just for keeping her "blind" eyes looking in the proper direction throughout. The real acting coup is Alan Arkin's. As a homocidal-sex maniac, Arkin is bone-chilling. His use of sunglasses, an eventual plot element, helps prevent associating him with the lovable sailor of The Russians Are Coming...
...draft was prepared by a commission of 20 jurists and submitted last month to the junta's 25-man Cabinet, which had hoped to prevent any premature disclosures. But a few copies somehow leaked out, providing at least a provisional glimpse of what Greece's new rulers have in mind for the country. Its major elements...
...especially since, it is claimed, there is no clear proof that the Saigon government represents the will of the people. Few if any of the antiwar clerics advocate handing the country directly over to Hanoi, but they argue that the U.S. has no divine mandate to use war to prevent the spread of Communism. Jesuit Theologian Daniel O'Hanlon of California's Alma College argues that the U.S. anti-Communist policy is "the holy-war theory, and it has been specifically rejected by the church." O'Hanlon contends that the pronouncements of both Pope John XXIII...