Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is probably some truth in the first two, and the third reason is important. But none of these three factors really answered my question of why individuals so often choose to be incompetent...
When agents began to question Gruenewald, he decided it would be prudent not to answer. Instead, he booked airline flights to Bogota, Manila, Tokyo, Taiwan, anywhere far from Queens. Learning of this, FBI agents decided they could wait no longer. They seized Sepe, whose beeping radio made his T-bird easy to follow, and they also grabbed Gruenewald and Werner. The good listener was charged as a material witness. The FBI hopes that his detention will lead gang members to feel that someone who knows a lot is telling all, thus causing even more falling out among the thieves...
Some foreign diplomats referred to Peking's possible use of Washington as a tool in its invasion strategy. Administration officials scoffingly denied anything like the connivance alleged by Moscow, and persuasively insisted that Carter had indeed tried to deter Teng from any "unwise" action. The question was whether Washington, eager to normalize relations with Peking, might not have been inadvertently enlisted in China's diplomatic preparation for the attack. "Now we know why China showed such haste to normalize relations with the U.S.," said Senator Charles Percy after the invasion...
...leaders have often boasted to sympathetic foreign visitors that the Vietnamese people were willing to "suffer with dedication." Last week truckloads of war-wounded and dead returning from the Chinese border and from Cambodia testified that the suffering was far from over. One unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable, question is how dedicated the 51 million citizens of the Vietnamese Socialist Republic remain to a leadership that has been unable to create a stable or prosperous country even after four years of relative peace...
...having kids. It was not an antichild so much as an antiparent movement. Among the voices raised against the tyrannies of automatic motherhood was that of Betty Rollin, who is now a correspondent for NBC News. "Motherhood is in trouble, and it ought to be," she wrote. "A rude question is long overdue: Who needs it?" The feminist Ellen Peck recruited Critic John Simon, TV Performer Hugh Downs and others to form the National Organization for Non-Parents ("None is fun"), devoted to the ideology of non-propagation...