Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands to repel boarders"? If the captain of the Pueblo was instructed never to use his machine guns, something is wrong with our leadership. Time and again military units of the U.S. have been insulted or knocked about because a cold-war enemy shrewdly guessed that the unit would suffer such treatment...
...MacArthur's. He is too willing to accept orders from Washington without fighting for his own views. "He hasn't had what it takes to insist all the way that his own best ideas prevail," says a former high officer. "No other general has ever had to suffer a command structure like this. But a general has got to know what is right and what is wrong...
...most creative students," says James E. Thomas, senior advisor to freshmen. "These are the students who feel most strongly the need to develop individual live styles--and are therefore the most likely to find the rules of House living restrictive." Thomas believes the general quality of House living many suffer if larger numbers of students choose to withdraw from the Houses...
...Government, however, did not agree to suffer this embarrassment. Few of the resisters have been arrested; most of them will be re-classified 1-A. Except for the trial of the "Boston Five," any moral confrontations the Resistance creates will occur within the resisters themselves. The situation exposes the central weakness of the Resistance as a political force: individuals do not control the consequences of their acts...
...convinced that Khe Sanh cannot only be held, but that Giap will suffer crushing losses in manpower if he tries to take it. Giap's alternatives to a direct attack are either to pull back and miss his chance or to sit in the hills with his mortars and artillery and try to bleed Khe Sanh to death in daily barrages. At week's end Khe Sanh took minor shelling while the two sides waited and carefully watched each other. The U.S., slightly apprehensive, was ready for an attack?and even hopeful that Giap would strike. As for Giap...