Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Save Lives. Finally, at week's end, he became the first presidential candidate to outline a step-by-step plan for peace in Viet Nam. The scheme was forthright and eminently reasonable, if perhaps too optimistic about what could be expected from the Communists. It at least gave the voters a clear insight into the candidate's thoughts on the issue. The plan's four stages...
Overlapping Program. If the Alliance is not identical with the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong, it certainly comes close. The "Save the Country Manifesto" it issued after the Mimot meeting significantly overlaps with the N.L.F.'s long-announced 14 points in demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops and bases and the creation of an independent, neutral South Viet Nam. Still, nine of its ten leaders have never been identified as Communists or as having had close association with the Viet Cong-although all have neutralist or leftist backgrounds. Chairman Trinh Dinh Thao...
When the sad news about the Argylls became known, angry Scots immediately announced a drive to save the historic regiment, and one of the first men to sign their petition was the Duke of Argyll, Sir Ian Douglas Campbell, a descendant of the unit's traditional officer clan. But unless Whitehall recants-and it seldom does-the Argylls played their swan song as they piped themselves out of Aden...
...remember how it started . . . All the kids were out to play, Then she said, "Hey, let's play 'May I.'" On a forthcoming record, a group called the Salt Water Taffy chants Sticks & Stones: Nothing you could say could ever make me leave her. . . . Save your breath 'cause I'm ignoring, But don't forget it's me that's scoring...
...SPOCK: "I think he [Johnson] is a man who has to save face. I don't mean that he is deliberately keeping us in the war. My gratuitous analysis is that without him knowing it, he has to save face. He is reported to have said, just before the escalation in 1965, that when his military and State Department people told him that the Saigon government and army were about to collapse--his reply was, that I refuse to be the first President to lose a war. This seems the only plausble reason why a man who campaigned...