Word: saving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Differences. Says Eugene Bable, a ranking U.S. official in the Delta: "You can say the villagers are doing it to save their own skins. But it was their skins before, and they remained passive." Two things have made the difference. The first spur was the deadly 1968 Tet offensive, which brought the war home to urban Vietnamese as never before. The Viet Cong occupied large sections of Phu Vinh, capital of Vinh Binh province, and killed 13 civilians be fore they were driven out. The second factor is a swashbuckling ex-actor named Tom Hayden...
...power brokers," Lindsay asserts principle; labor leaders call it inflexibility and priggishness. "It's this upper-white-class Protestant ethic that gives him a feeling of moral superiority," says Martin Morgenstern, head of the Social Service Employes Union. "He's like the white knight come to save...
Some of the buyers were Americans, who preferred to spend MFCs whenever possible and save their regular dollars to sell on the black market. They had ample reason. "Green" dollars, which wealthy Vietnamese coveted for squirreling away outside the country, brought about 200 piastres in illicit dealing. The scrip was also purchased by natives, who used it to buy military PX goods through G.I. contacts...
...like Humphrey so much as they feared Kennedy, failed to materialize. Eugene McCarthy soaked up some cash that otherwise would have gone to Humphrey during the summer. Finally, Nixon's 16-point lead in the Gallup poll after the G.O.P. Convention persuaded many potential big contributors to save their money for more hopeful causes...
...vote for Humphrey or Nixon to save the country from Wallace is an unnecessary gesture that registers no protest; for even if he managed to throw the election into the House of Representatives, the Alabaman would not have the strength to see either himself or his philosophy prevail...