Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came last week when President Johnson dramatically restricted the U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam without demanding any reciprocal restraint by the Communists. North Viet Nam, in turn, agreed to the first significant face-to-face diplomatic contact with the U.S. since embassy-level talks in Moscow 14 months ago, although its insistence upon an end to all attacks on its territory had not been met. Washington accepted, even though Hanoi limited the initial agenda to the question of a full cessation of U.S. attacks. The entire exchange took just 68 hours. Washington, through embassy channels in Laos, immediately proposed...
...took a searching second look at the man in the White House and revised their earlier views. "Many of the personal things said in this column, as well as other places," wrote Joseph Kraft, "now look to be petty and cheap. Johnson has set a stan dard of self-restraint that many of his critics could well emulate." Calling L.B.J.'s renunciation "heroic,"Kraft declared that it is the "supreme achievement of a career rich in significant accomplishments...
...just a day before the killing. The most stirring commentary to follow those pictures ame from NBC's Chet Huntley, who tilted his head away from the camera, battled back tears and said: "Again we are made to look like a nation of killers. Restraint, gentleness and chanty, virtues we so desperately need, have had a dark...
...difference in stroke technique. A player uses much more wrist action in swinging a squash racket and therefore undercuts his groundstroke. In tennis, the strokes are longer and more graceful. A player often puts overspin on both his forehand and backhand. Tennis strategy also necessitales a factor of restraint which is not present in squash because of the surrounding walls...
...tamely with all the conventional comedy answers and one big question: What lace-curtain gentility, what damnable tact keeps lonor Tracy from finally ripping through? The book earns its solid quota of middle-volume laughter, but its uthor remains cursed by an un-Irish 'emon of cautious restraint...