Word: third
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NEARLY five years after the 1965 buildup, Americans are increasingly impatient for a way out of Viet Nam, skeptical about the outcome of the fighting and ambivalent about the means of ending it. More than a third of the public want immediate, unconditional withdrawal of U.S. forces-a sizable figure in support of a policy that until recently was overwhelmingly held to be unthinkable and disastrous...
Linoleum. Perhaps the biggest factor working for Lindsay is Procaccino's failure to rally either the Democrats or the independents. The most conservative of five primary candidates, he won the Democratic nomination with only a third of the vote, and has had difficulty expanding that base. Many prominent Democrats are actively supporting Lindsay. In the News poll, Lindsay captured a bigger slice of the Democrats, 44%, than Procaccino, who got 37%. Procaccino's personality also worked against him. The contrast between Lindsay's Ivy League polish and Procaccino's almost deliberate coarseness began to chafe...
...military triumvirate took over the government, imperiously brushing aside the civilian Vice President, who should have succeeded Costa e Silva under the constitution. Early this month the brass reached into the ranks of four-star generals to choose Médici, the taciturn commander of Brazil's Third Army, as the new "candidate...
...Crimson began to pressure the Blue goal in the third period then produced the winning margin with its fourth-quarter barrage. Meanwhile, the Yardling defenders had only to turn back occasional Andover fast breaks in the second half...
Harvard attacked the Blue goal with venom after halftime, but aggressive play by Andover's coachkept the score even through the third period. With three minutes gone in the last stanza, Sideropoulos broke the deadlock when he slammed home his second goal from 12 yards out after another assist from Auritt...