Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Were "steady in an emergency" and "panicked" coded references to Kennedy's failure to rescue Mary Jo Kopechne from his submerged car in July 1969 as well as his failure to seek help? Many reporters thought so. But Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell indignantly denied the connection. Quite correctly, Powell pointed out that Kennedy had raised the leadership issue, suggesting, in effect, that the nation is seeking a stronger person in the White House. Added Powell: "How can you ask an incumbent President who has faced every tough, thankless issue and has a commendable record-not perfect, but pretty...
...American commandos raided an installation 20 miles from Hanoi-the Son Tay prison-thought to house 60 American prisoners of war. The raid was heroically executed but was based on an egregious failure of intelligence: the prison had been closed at least three months earlier...
...explanations in Welles' orotund delivery become bemusingly classical: "The biggest dice game in history was for some very high stakes indeed. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades rolled for the universe. Poseidon won the oceans, Hades the underworld and Zeus the heavens. It is thought that Zeus owned the dice...
...well as real historical events glance off the angles of McMahon's sto ry. Among the people: Louis Agassiz, 19th century America's most celebrated naturalist, cold to Darwin's evolutionary theories because he regards each species of plant or animal as. "in itself, a thought...
Connally stressed that while we should not cancel the summit, we also should not refrain from doing what we thought necessary out of fear of the Soviets' doing so. Whatever measures we took...