Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vicarious violence that I participated in while watching Bonnie and Clyde left me so drained that I still have neither the energy nor the desire to pull a trigger-anywhere. Fantastic...
...Whatever their views on China, U.S. voters affirmed once again last week that they do not consider a precipitate pull-out from Viet Nam the best way to settle the war. In Cambridge, Mass., with the last absentee ballots from the Nov. 7 election finally counted, a war referendum showed 17,742 opposed to U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam v. 11,349 in favor. The 3-to-2 margin against withdrawal was roughly the same as the one piled up by San Francisco voters last month. In ivied wards around Harvard and M.I.T., one of the nation's strongest...
...programs are moving from charity to more socially and politically active positions. Two weeks ago, the PBH program working at the Cambridge Community Center delivered an ultimatum to the Center's Administrative Board. Robert A. Goodin '68, co-chairman of the cultural enrichment program, threatened to pull out of the Center unless its administration was taken over by the residents of the neighborhood in which it operates. He said there was no justification for a non-indigenous group to be there unless it was directly responsive to the needs and wants of the neighborhood. Residents had complained there...
...pullout as a prelude to peace talks "should answer any person in this country who has ever felt that stopping the bombing alone would bring us to the negotiating table." If North Viet Nam's leaders are operating on the assumption that another President would pull out of Viet Nam and make "an inside deal," they are making "a serious misjudgment...
...friends still sit in Peking, of course, steering China's overall course. But the Cultural Revolution so severely battered all normal channels of control and command-the party and government bureaucracies, the factories, farms and schools-that only the army remains with enough organizational integrity and discipline to pull the country back from anarchy. The P.L.A.'s commanders and fighters (its egalitarian bent permits no ranks) have practically taken political control of China: nearly all of the country's 26 provinces and regions are run by army men, and they are the only visible authority in five...