Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholars recommended continued prosecution of the war, though without escalation and possibly with experimental de-escalations to win broader support for it at home. As they noted, "the outcome is being decided on the streets and in the homes of America as much as in the jungles of Viet Nam. Both the Government and its critics should begin to face up to these facts...
...industry predictably asked Kentucky's courts to erase the new ruling, counted on at least moral support from Louie Nunn, whose gubernatorial campaign they had supported. They were in for a disappointment. Not only did Nunn go along with the order, but he also persuaded Ned Breathitt's director of reclamation, Elmore Grim, who had helped draw up the regulations, to stay on the job. When a restraining order against carrying out the regulations was knocked down in court, Grim pledged strict enforcement...
...caused last week by an issue that Harold Wilson quickly grasped-if he did not pump it up on purpose-in order to reassert his party command. South Africa, it seemed, wanted to buy ?200 million worth of arms, and could Britain please forget its three-year-old support of the U.N. embargo to sell them? It appeared that there could scarcely be an easier way of uniting all Labor than giving it a chance to say no to the Vorster apartheid regime. But at least five ministers, led by Foreign Secretary George Brown, declined to go along with Wilson...
...whole" against the arms sales. The rumors continued that Brown, whose rambunctious social behavior has never seemed to bother Wilson, was not long for the Cabinet, even though such a move would split the party down the middle. Wilson's political stock also waned when he prearranged parliamentary support for continuing the ban-the first time in recent memory that a Prime Minister has gone over the Cabinet's head for "backbench" allies...
...obviously back with his wife in the murder car, apparently reliving what had happened. He and she "were having a lot of fun," he said. Then, he remembered, she started talking about a former husband's sexual prowess. "A big man in bed," mumbled Kidwell. "Couldn't support his kids, that son of a bitch...