Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lest the North Vietnamese, and by indirection the Red Chinese, misread the U.S. stance, the President ordered the U.S. fleet to pursue and destroy any attacking vessel. "Pursuit," in this case, meant that an enemy could be chased to wherever it might flee, even into the sanctuary of its own territorial waters. To back up the public denunciation of North Viet Nam's attack, moreover, the State Department issued a fiery protest to the Hanoi government...
...less conceded to other nations. Philadelphia Insurance Man Ira Davis bounced 53 ft. 11 in. to give the U.S. its first victory in the triple jump (hop, step and jump). For six years, New Mexico Science Teacher George Young has charged over hurdles and splashed through water in hopeless pursuit of the Soviets; this time he caught them for a richly deserved win in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. The U.S. has never produced a better man at 5,000 meters than Bob Schul of Ohio's Miami University; the Russians did not believe it -until he left them...
...having today in the cities if we had an Attorney General who was not always trying to be moderate and would go on and apply the law," he said. Asked if he didn't think that civil rights leaders were right in their militant-and nonmoderate-pursuit of justice, Goldwater said: "No, because you see we have a law on the books, and if it were adequately enforced, a solution to the civil rights problem would be forthcoming...
...issue back in the moderates' faces. "I like those lines," he said, and he ordered them underlined in his printed text. "I would remind you," the lines went, "that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue...
...years he had spent on Bulambemba, an island prison in the mouth of the Congo River. It had not been a painful confinement, for his obliging jailers had given Gizenga plenty of opportunity to engage in his favorite non-political sports: the smoking of hemp and the pursuit at close quarters of young girls...