Word: recoiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...democracy because of what we the articulate and anguished opponents of the war will have slowly accomplished, just as we for our part have developed admiration for the Vietnamese as resolute and resourceful soldiers and have become sympathetic with them all as an unusually attractive people even as we recoil both from the iron ideology of Hanoi and from the corruption and vice of Saigon...
...they have." Without exactly meaning to, white Middle America rests upon the unspoken threat of sheer presence and the six-gun deterrent, Gary Cooper's fingers twitching two inches from his holster. No wonder the Middle Americans recoil when the twitching fingers are black?as at Cornell, or at Black Panther headquarters...