Word: pull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liberal Party's William McMahon, Holt's Treasurer, the party's second-in-command and Holt's heir apparent. Over the years, small policy disagreements between the two have sharpened into such an angry personal feud that McEwen last week threat ened to pull his party out of the coalition if the Liberals pick McMahon as their leader. To underline his point, McEwen refused to invite any of the government's nine Liberal Cabinet ministers to his swearing...
...Race. The discussion is certain to be lively. The plan has been assailed as going too far and too fast by New York City's Board of Education. Superintendent Bernard Donovan claims that it would lead to the selection of teachers and principals on the basis of "pull, influence, race, or some other way instead of merit." Albert Shanker,*president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, con tends that it would create "chaos" through conflict between districts and confusion in contract negotiations; if the plan is approved, he predicts that teacher unrest would lead to "thou...
...does it mean? Viet Nam veterans have been stung so often over the years by misplaced optimism that most have become cautious to a fault; yet some cautiously conjecture that the Communists' aggressiveness just might be the next step to negotiations (see ESSAY). "They're trying to pull off one last offensive and then talk peace," said one U.S. official. If that is so, however, the Viet Cong message to the United Nations last week gave no hint of it. More propaganda than proposal, it repeated the National Liberation Front's latest program, which suggests that after...
...young King, that moment seemed to have arrived last week. As he saw it, the junta had lost face in Greece by bowing to Turkish demands to pull out 8,000 Greek troops from Cyprus - though its willingness to compromise had undoubtedly prevented a war and an irreparable rupture in NATO...
...Said and the Syrian port of Latakia for repairs under the pretext of good-will visits. They also visit the French-built base at Mers-el-Kebir on the Algerian coast, which they would like to use as a permanent base when the last remnants of the French navy pull out next year. Sometimes the Soviet ships come so close to U.S. vessels that the Americans must take evasive action...