Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will suffer serious political costs in liquidating a struggle in which we have excessively enmeshed ourselves, and it would be naive to pretend otherwise. But if we are sensible about it and do not blow up the dragons of catastrophe beyond life size, those costs need be only short term. In fact, if we learn the right lessons and resist drawing the wrong conclusions from this unhappy national experience, we may, over the long pull, emerge the stronger...
...pressure and expectations. A few critics expressed such surprising optimism about the speech that they seemed to be deliberately setting the President up for a public letdown. Even if there was no Machiavellian scheming, it was obvious that Nixon himself, perhaps unwittingly, had created a situation in which anything short of a dramatic announcement might lead to disappointment. But repeated White House warnings not to anticipate anything sensational finally managed to lower the pitch of public expectation...
...lottery procedure for the draft. The bill passed the House, but Democratic leaders in the Senate want to reform the whole Selective Service Act and contend that this requires more time. The issue apparently will reemerge next year, but Nixon need not wait. He can institute certain reforms, short of a lottery system, by executive decree...
PETER TAYLOR'S short stories-like the visit to the family house-are revisitations to assess the real dimensions of the countryside where he grew up. We read through the towns of Collierville, La Grange, Grand Junction, Saulsbury, Chatham, Thornton on our way to and from Memphis and Nashville...
East Cambridge is Vellucci's home and he knows everybody there. As we drove down the street behind the courthouse we passed some boys about ten years old, walking in the street. Vellucci stopped the car short and veiled out the window, "Hey Benny, I caught you kid. What...