Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps no other war in history has imposed similar restraints and frustrations on an armed force, making the bitterness of the military men understandable. Still, most of their assertions about missed chances of victory are highly questionable. The notion that a quick strike by an unfettered U.S. military force would have promptly subdued the enemy ignores the whole history of the incredible tenacity, patience and xenophobic passion of Vietnamese nationalists. It also underrates their guerrilla fighting skills. A U.S. invasion of North Viet Nam to topple the Hanoi government must at times have had an obvious appeal to the military...
...even keeps his birthday secret lest admirers send him cakes or other gifts. His driving intensity about work can sometimes trap him into hasty accusations. When economists in the Johnson Administration once met with auto industry leaders in an effort to win voluntary price restraint, Nader was too quick to accuse the Administration of "acquiescing" to Detroit. In fact, L.B.J.'s emissaries had stood their ground...
...that Unruh has now been quick to admit the "tragic mistake of the United States." This act in itself would not be an education; it would be more like jumping on the bandwagon of political victory...
Unruh says now. "I think the continuation of the war under these circumstances is immoral." But he added that this was not his position from the beginning. He, like so many others, had been firm and quick to follow the lead of the President. But he, like so few others, has learned much from his error...
Ford added that some of the Faculty's debates have dealt with his own "alleged qualities of mind and character" and have caused him "quick flashes of pain and incredulity...