Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another President with superior powers of persuasion might have succeeded. His inability to convince either Congress or the nation of the need for a tax increase is one example. When the Detroit riots erupted last summer, Johnson had a splendid opportunity to rally the nation. Instead, he took a safe, legalistic and patently political approach, delaying the dispatch of federal troops until Michigan's Governor George Romney, a potential rival in 1968, was ready to admit that he had lost control of the situation. Johnson's follow-up actions were no more impressive. "Here we've had a whole summer...
...Person Is Not Safe." City officials issued some of the sternest warnings in the nation's history against violent behavior. New York's Mayor John Lindsay promised to shake up police assignments so that, within a year, 40% more men would be walking beats (instead of riding desks). "We'll whack away at crime with every damn thing we've got," said Lindsay. Meanwhile, a county grand jury in Nashville urged that the death penalty and heavy prison sentences be imposed to halt "the avalanche of crime and arson that has come upon us," and suggested...
...great that it has led many Israeli politicians to demand outright the annexation of the conquered lands once and for all. The government, whatever its intent may be, publicly rejects such ideas. "It is not enough for us to look down from the Golan Heights, see our settlements lying safe below, and say that now peace is assured," said Defense Minister Moshe Dayan two weeks ago. "We shall have to look at it also from the point of view of the Syrians, who see our troops 38 miles from Damascus and who do not see that as a situation guaranteeing...
...fact that he would like some of the targeting restrictions lifted, notably on Haiphong harbor and the Gia Long airfield. Of the handful of remaining major taboo targets, Gia Long has been spared because of its use by commercial planes, but it has also become the last safe haven for Hanoi's remaining 14 MIGs. Momyer has little use for the upcoming holiday bombing pause, noting that last year the three-day pause for the Vietnamese New Year enabled Hanoi to move supplies equal to 47 days traffic under his raids...
...duck low to "submarine" under. They clutch at shoulder pads and jerseys, trying to spin blockers aside and clear a path to the ballcarrier. They have, in fact, become so adept at slipping blocks that not even the punter, standing 15 yds. back of the line of scrimmage, is safe any more. Kickers who used to count on 1.5 sec. to get the ball away now find that they must boot it within 1.2 sec.; this season in the N.F.L., no fewer than ten punts and 28 field-goal attempts have been deflected by onrushing defenders...