Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Robert Kennedy predicted that the weeks ahead would prove "critical and crucial." And the New York Times's Harrison Salisbury, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about his two-week stay in North Viet Nam last month, expressed the conviction that Hanoi, increasingly unsure of Peking's aid, is "ready to talk business...
Brown's budget had been balanced by a one-shot windfall of millions, the result of a change in the state's accounting system. Reagan has no such nest egg, and said he would need upwards of $240 million in new taxes just to stay even. Last week he even accused Brown of having "looted and drained" the state treasury, leaving his successor with the onus of levying new taxes. Reagan later explained that he had not implied any malfeasance on Brown's part, confessing that he was "addicted" to using the "simplest words...
Apricot Bouquets. To those of the enemy who come home to stay, Saigon offers amnesty and retraining to aid the Allied side. Last year the joint U.S. and South Vietnamese Chieu Hoi program induced a record 20,242 of the enemy to come over. So far this year, the rate has been running double last year's. For the "psywar" planners, Tet is far and away the best time to turn the enemy's head and heart. This year's Tet campaign is a mammoth, ingenious saturation of the whole nation, far bigger than last year...
...American embassy, remembers visiting Fairbank and finding him "living like a Chinese in a cold, barren office trying to keep warm in a padded Chinese gown. He was in such a bad state with a cold that I brought him back to the embassy and had him stay there until he got over...
...clique of capitalists emerged soon after the 1949 revolution, when many wealthy Chinese fled to Taiwan or Hong Kong in fear of their lives. Those who stayed struck a bargain with the Reds. In desperate need of old-fashioned expertise to run China's newly nationalized industries, the Communists allowed factory owners to stay on as managers. They were guaranteed their regular salaries, plus 5% annual interest on the value of their former holdings-as assessed by Communist party bureaucrats...