Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these matters, the President has remained strangely silent. According to his aides, one of the things that restrains him from expressing a sanguine view of events is his concern that if he did, home-front warriors would demand all-out escalation and instant victory. Conversely, Johnson often sounds as much or more concerned with the dovecoterie, apparently fearing that optimistic portents from the White House would redouble the clamor for a negotiated peace...
...Cong and their North Vietnamese reinforcements where they live (see map), seizing enemy stockpiles of rice and salt and weapons. Even in the enemy redoubts where ground forces have not yet penetrated, the threat of the bombs from high-flying Guam-based B-52s, falling like rain from a silent sky, haunts the Communists' sleep, keeps them on the move...
...others. And if the high-bidding Harvard real estate agents insure that the University will expand its perimeter, they also assure many Cambridge residents of receiving twice or three times the ordinary value of their land. Perhaps because of these compensations, the real estate issue has been a largely silent...
...also made improvements. For example Dean Robert B. Watson has established a good working relationship with the Cambridge police. As the partial result, the police are consistently excellent in handling student disturbances, which range from springtime "riots" to anti-war protests. In addition, there seems to be a silent concord between Harvard and the police to let the University handle its own disciplinary problems...
Governors are politicians, however, and they can hardly be expected to stay entirely silent on an issue that is on everyone's mind. At last year's Governors Conference all members present endorsed President Johnson's conduct of the war, with the exceptions of Romney of Michigan (who later adhered to the endorsing resolution when he learned what it meant) and Hatfield of Oregon...