Word: quiescent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moscow Visit. There are perhaps two reasons why Nixon is speaking more openly about his plans for Viet Nam. The enemy is quiescent as the situation in South Viet Nam continues to stabilize and improve. And the Paris peace talks are getting nowhere. As he said at his press conference, the chances for a negotiated settlement in Paris are "not good." He further implied that he had no immediate plans to replace his two chief delegates at the talks, Henry Cabot Lodge and Lawrence E. Walsh. Instead, the President named Career Diplomat Philip C. Habib, who served under Lodge...
...defy defeat or victory. It was a war, moreover, begun with good, liberal and patriotic intentions and on a modest scale, but it led to onerous costs, both moral and material. Americans landed on the moon: back on earth, their cities festered and their atmosphere was befouled. The quiescent young people of the '50s were succeeded by more assertive youths, who symbolically displayed their rejection of society's established values at Woodstock. During the decade, more and more groups seemed to drop out of the national consensus, and a belligerent rhetoric of protest and revolution swept the country...
...bigger part of the combat load shows up in the fact that they are now taking consistently more than 80% of allied casualties. For the last week in November, U.S. deaths were down to 70, the lowest since the beginning of October. However, the enemy has been relatively quiescent in recent months; the effectiveness of Vietnamization so far has still to be seriously tested...
Black protest has been quiescent for the past six months. It is possible that the President's tranquilizing tactics may work-but hardly in the long run. "Instead of cooling the crisis," says Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League and a leading spokesman for black moderation, "this studied nonactivity is adding dangerous fuel to the pent-up rage and frustration of inhabitants of our black ghettos." As if to prove Young's point, the man chosen by Nixon to promote his black capitalism program-a major campaign pledge-angrily resigned last week...
...pass the buck. Congress has traditionally acted on the principle that slack is beautiful. And the fact is that during nearly 40 years dominated for the most part by activist, innovative Presidents, Congress grew accustomed to reacting to executive initiatives rather than originating major legislation. During the relatively quiescent Eisenhower years, Sam Rayburn in the House and Lyndon Johnson in the Senate provided strong party leadership, giving the opposition Democrats a measure of cohesion and guidance. Speaker John McCormack and Senate Leader Mike Mansfield offer no comparable direction today. Illinois Democrat Roman Pucinski complains: "The Speaker never intended...