Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being so badly hurt in the South that it is Hanoi that should be beset by gloom. But this is beside the point. Johnson is still unable to communicate to the American people a sense of what the U.S. is doing in Viet Nam, how U.S. interests are at stake as well as South Viet Nam's, the reasons for sticking out a long, enervating conflict...
...going to pursue those programs that they believe will produce peace in Viet Nam on a sound basis as soon as possible." At a Lansing press conference, he went so far as to describe U.S. involvement in Viet Nam as a "tragic" mistake. "All of Southeast Asia is at stake today," he declared. "It wasn't initially. It wasn't before we built this thing...
...Christians condemned the Gnostics as heretics for maintaining that salvation can be obtained through knowledge alone, many Christian faiths have found the accusation of heresy a handy tool to keep dissidents in line or toss them out. For supposedly challenging church doctrine, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431; so were Czech Reform Leader John Hus in 1415 and the impassioned Dominican Savonarola in 1498 (he was hanged first for good measure). In recent history, however, punishments for heresy have grown less brutal, and the charge has only rarely been invoked. Doctrinal disputes are increasingly resolved...
Looming Large. Ling's campaign naturally provoked nationwide fascination. Starting with a $3,000 stake in 1946, he had wired together a series of dazzling acquisitions to build a conglomerate that topped $468 million in sales last year. And this year "the Ling Dynasty," as L-T-V is sometimes called, has loomed even larger. In March a surprise Ling tender offer hauled Chicago's Wilson & Co. into the fold. Early this month, Ling announced a plan to take over Greatamerica Corp., the Dallas-based bank, insurance and airline (Braniff) combine controlled by his longtime ally, Troy Post...
...instead of only partially, subject to the tyranny of chance?" The photographer becomes Bowles's modern antihero, participating in "an invisible spectacle whose painful logic he followed with the entire fiber of his being, without, however, once being given a clear vision of what agonizing destinies were at stake...