Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee emphasized that "we are not supporters of a President or of an Administration; we are supporters of the office of the presidency." "We favor," it said, "a sensible road between capitulation and the indiscriminate use of raw power. We believe that we speak for the great 'silent center' of American life, the understanding, independent and responsible men and women who have consistently opposed rewarding international aggressors from Adolf Hitler to Mao Tse-tung." Lest Hanoi get the wrong idea from antiwar demonstrations, it added: "We want the aggressors to know that there is a solid, stubborn, dedicated...
...fact, there is hardly a place in the world, from Bogotá to Berlin, where the American will to persist in Viet Nam is not being closely eyed. If the silent center in the U.S. can find an effective voice, through the new Citizens Committee or any other channel, American foreign policy will carry considerably greater authority with friends and foes alike...
Suddenly the silent wake erupted in pandemonium. Helicopters whirled in upon the village. Out poured 36 South Vietnamese in camouflage tiger suits, feet bare and guns blazing. Accompanied by U.S. Navy Lieut. Bernard F. McMahon Jr. and yelling at the top of their lungs, the raiders charged into the gathering and kidnaped ten of the Viet Cong brass. Then they fought their way out past the remaining Viet Cong and, with the aid of hovering helicopter gunships, reached waiting river boats over a mile away. The attacking force's casualties: none...
...they do, "they walk on clouds because they have succeeded." The harsh drills are designed to help the children to control their actions so that they move only on a teacher's command, then respond to vocal commands of their own making, finally move only on their own silent internal commands. This kind of control is an essential preliminary to learning how to read, the foundation's psychologists contend...
...surge of inflationary wage increases. With its staggering 7% annual increase in wages and benefits, the Ford settlement dwarfs the 4.9% won last year by the airline machinists, who effectively buried the Administration's once cherished 3.2% wage-price "guide-posts." Though the Administration has been strangely silent of late, it is now clear that another mark has been passed. Last August CEA's Ackley expressed the hope that Reuther's men would not jostle "the general pattern that has developed this year around...