Word: tartly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tart Replies. Withdrawing ground troops is the carrot; air attacks are the stick. "Air power, of course, will continue to be used," the President said. "We will continue to use it in support of the South Vietnamese until there is a negotiated settlement or, looking farther down the road, until the South Vietnamese have developed the capability to handle the situation themselves." As U.S. ground forces are cut back, he added, air strikes against enemy infiltration routes are essential to protect both South Vietnamese forces and the remaining Americans. Should infiltration increase, he warned, "we will have to not only...
...turns tart or tomelike, Black's opinions initially were mostly dissents, but in the '50s his spare, step-by-step reasoning began attracting a majority. His reasoning served as backbone to such breakthrough decisions as those enforcing Southern school desegregation, expanding the rights of criminal defendants, and requiring state legislatures to be apportioned on a one-man, one-vote basis. His longest fight was a largely successful effort to expand application of the Bill of Rights beyond the federal structure to state courts and agents as well. Despite his acknowledged eminence among colleagues, he remained an unprepossessing figure...
Lofton's tart tirades have made Monday lively reading in Washington for friend and foe alike. President Nixon is pleased and has told party officials, "I want that thing to hit hard." The Democratic National Committee's publications director, William Quinn, sneers that Lofton "drums up yellow journalism," but he admits that Monday "can generate a lot of attention. Lofton is kind of crafty. He knows what will catch the eye of newspapers." Indeed Monday is often quoted by one or another of the 8,000 newspapers, radio or TV stations to which it is sent. By contrast...
...Other tart criticisms were offered by two of Johnson's White House intellectuals, the University of Texas' Walt Rostow and Brandeis' John Roche. Rostow said that the Pentagon researchers had exercised a "most egregious extraction out of context" of his "hundreds of memos on Southeast Asia." Newspapers, he contended, had further distorted the perspective. "If a student here at Texas were to turn in a term paper where the gap between data and conclusions was as wide as that between the Pentagon study and the newspaper stories, he would expect to be flunked." Roche scoffed at the study as "third...
...groups. Few could tell at the time whether these were the last rumblings of discontent or the start of a new wave of protests against the highest level of administration. In either case, most members of the Corporation clearly saw that not only was its credibility sorely lacking but tart the Presidency selection could easily become the focus for every battle-large and small-that had festered in the University since the Strike. For too long Harvard had seemed a place in limbo. The Faculty restructured itself, but as one professor active