Word: tars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What did Nixon get in return? For one thing, he seems to have diluted labor support for the blatantly protectionist Burke-Hartke bill. Meany pronounced "attractive" a proposed Nixon bill that would instead give the President discretionary power to raise tar iffs against nations that are thought to discriminate against U.S. goods. Also, labor leaders pledged to be "cooperative" about keeping any strikes this year to a minimum. Nixon has taken great pride in recent labor peace, and puts a high priority on keeping the now-humming economy from developing a case of 1973 strike sputters...
...Best and the Brightest provides an extraordinary view of bureaucratic evil in the making It explores the way historical events like the McCarthy repression influence the treatment of subsequent situations. It shows how blunders are compounded and options are closed off; Halberstam has substitued the metaphor "tar baby" for his previous "quagmire" to indicate that the process is not a passive one, even after the first misguided step. Perhaps because the scope of the book is so ambitious, some readers will expect it to solve all the problems of the Cold War, to furnish an analytic framework for all Americans...
...essential roots of this cultural cold war are depressingly familiar: the gap between those who live in the cool stucco villas on the hillsides and those scrabbling for an existence in the tar-paper shanties in the towns; unemployment and underemployment hard by glittering affluence; the infection of black nationalism. Says Melvin Evans, the islands' black Governor: "Our people feel they are losing their home; they feel they'll soon be outnumbered by the people from the north, from the U.S." Adds Leopold E. Benjamin, his black assistant: "There's a lot of young people, especially those...
...send enough troops to ensure a stalemate. That the escalations of subsequent Presidents were made after considerable pessimistic advice and with one eye on the Gallup poll leads Ellsberg to dismiss the general belief that the U.S. sank slowly in the East like some hapless woolly mammoth in a tar pit. Perhaps Presidents overestimated the consequences of clear-cut withdrawal not only because of the advice they received but also because of their own timid estimates of what the American people could or could not face up to. If the Viet Nam stalemate is a tragedy, Ellsberg suggests...
...single trap door open to the roof, so Jon and I take a complete tour of the roof to see whether the open door would be dangerous. We have begun to get caught up in the adventure of the affair. The roof, on this Tuesday afternoon, is primarily melting tar, but a tour around the narrow ledge gives us no trouble at all. The Garden roof is bereft of good hiding places save the fire escapes, and the dogs are guarding them. But we are very thorough, checking the ventilator shafts, and the doors. There's no place to hide...