Word: sustainable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conduct of that war, President Johnson reveals either gross tactlessness or, more terrible, ignorance of or disregard for American tradition. Whatever the right or wrong of the Viet Nam war, those Senators and Congressmen who applauded this performance make the cause of democracy that much harder to sustain...
Twenty years ago, when ex-Vice-President Henry Wallace ran for President, there was reason to believe a third party could do well. New York State had been able to sustain both a third and fourth party to the left of the Democrats. California had seen, in the '30's, a remarkable showing by Upton Sinclair in an insurgent bid for the Governorship. But in '48 Wallace got two per cent of the vote and was narrowly edged out by a Dixiecrat (a humiliation which could easily recur...
...heart condition -which Schaub did his best to show was faked-Carmela flunked the state's medical examination, and could not work as a doctor. They were left to live on Coppolino's $22,000-a-year disability insurance, which was plainly not enough to sustain his high-living tastes plus losses in real estate speculations that amounted to $15,500 that year. Only three weeks before his wife's death, Coppolino increased by $10,000 the $55,000 in life insurance policies covering Carmela...
Sadly, it is the bull-headed, unreasonable policy of the Johnson Administration which makes us the Neanderthals in this battle. It should be apparent by how that North Vietnamese leaders are willing to sustain substantial destruction at home in hopes that America will tire of its self-debilitating efforts...
While the anti-war feeling in this country has grown, the anti-war movement itself has failed to produce large numbers of politically educated people who are seriously committed to doing the organizing necessary to build a base which, and only which, can sustain a radical movement...