Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true that an intense, emotional atmosphere can push people strongly in the direction of what a radical-romantic believes to be the right decisions. This raise a fierce moral problem: there is a question of individual conscience, the right to remain constricted, one might say. I hear my heroes laughing at my rhetoric, so I will switch to a tactical argument: stable liberation, whatever it might mean, must be reaction to internal needs, not to external circumstances. It is mere intellectual arrogance to point our to a Harvard student that the life is being squeezed...
...LB.J. Many on Capitol Hill, including some Republicans, attribute the dearth of activity to the Administration. It has been slow to formulate a legislative program and reluctant to push hard for the specific requests that it has made. The charge is at least partly accurate. Even before Inauguration Day, it was clear that Richard Nixon intended to hold down expenditures-and hence any new domestic programs-where possible, and to avoid unnecessary clashes with the Democratic-controlled Congress...
...true that an intense, emotional atmosphere can push people strongly in the direction of what a radical romantic believes to be the right decisions. This raisse a fierce moral problem: there is a question of individual conscience, the right to remain constricted, one might say. I hear my heroes laughing at my very rhetoric, so I will switch to a tactical argument; stable liberation, whatever it might mean, must be reaction to internal needs, not to external circumstances. It is mere intellectual arrogance to point out to a Harvard student that the life is being squeezed...
...sorts for the Russians. From 1962 onward, Nikita Khrushchev tried to convene a world conference to deal with the Chinese. After the ouster of Khrushchev in 1964, the summit plan was shelved until three years ago, when the collective Kremlin leadership of Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin began to push for a meeting where the Soviets could try to reassert their old primacy within international Communism. Twice a date was set only to be scrubbed -first by the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets and then by the continuing ire of foreign Communists at Moscow's post-invasion ideological...
Common Ground. What remained undefined were the modalities in Paris: how to get Hanoi and the National Liberation Front to begin discussing a withdrawal schedule, how to persuade Saigon to talk of compromising on election particulars. U.S. Negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge, however, remained de termined to push the talks off dead center. "We have reached a stage in these negotiations where the issues have become clear, and we can now get down to serious discussion of them in specific detail," he declared. Lodge thereupon named five specific issues-ranging from agreements on Laos and Cambodia to release of prisoners-where...