Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word that Khrushchev no longer cared about a summit meeting. And from behind the Iron Curtain drifted reports that Khrushchev was planning to use this week's meeting of the Warsaw Pact (the Communist version of NATO) to get the cooled-off Berlin cauldron boiling again. Big Stick. Khrushchev was obviously engaging Kennedy in a contest of at-the-brink nerves. If he could force Kennedy to back down, the President's authority and prestige, his capacity to lead the U.S. and the free world, would be gravely damaged. Kennedy elected to meet the attack, and to meet...
Achievement of a neutral Laos would be no Kennedy victory, but if neutrality could be preserved, it would be an acceptable stopgap solution. Implicit in Kennedy's words was a hint of a big stick-a warning that, in spite of all the hazards of warfare and the possibility of another Korea, the U.S. would fight if necessary to keep the Reds from overrunning Laos. The troops were ready, and Secretary of State Rusk was at the SEATO conference in Bangkok to rally the U.S.'s allies (see following story...
Kennedy stopped short of issuing an ultimatum. In the questioning that followed, he deftly parried newsmen's persistent attempts to find out just how big a stick he was willing to wield to back up his soft words. The Pentagon's lip was zipped, but word began to percolate from across the Pacific of the major military movements...
Back from the successful conference of rival Congo political leaders on the island of Madagascar, Albert Kalonji, the boss of South Kasai province, waved his favorite fetish stick and cried: "The crisis is definitely over. Everybody is satisfied." Congo President Joseph Kasavubu staged a military parade and called a national holiday to celebrate. From the cheerful tone taken by the assorted Congolese leaders, peace and maybe even civilization seemed just around the corner...
Does programed learning stick? Pro-gramers so far have precious little evidence. But in Roanoke this month, 25 of the original 34 guinea pigs were tested again, averaged 90% or better of their first scores. Psychologist Allen Calvin of Hollins College, who ran the experiment, called the results "truly striking...