Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changes would have reached Communist units by mid-June-just about the time the lull began. The theory is bolstered by the fact that a push, expected by American intelligence for June 19 or 20, was hurriedly called off by the Communist command in the South. Another drive, thought to have been scheduled for about July 21, was similarly canceled on short notice. > Hanoi has opted for temporary disengagement in the belief that a lull in the fighting will spur quicker U.S. withdrawal from South Viet Nam. Once large numbers of U.S. troops have pulled out, the Communists could resume...
...MARRIAGE: On the whole, it is probable that conjugal fidelity is increasing, if not in thought, at least in practice. It takes too much time to establish new contacts as compared with relaxation in the home. For the same reason, perhaps, young and energetic people tend to marry early and cut down on the time-consuming process of search...
Ironically, Crowhurst's despondency over his apparent failure was less justified than he thought. Unknown to him, eight of the nine other competitors in the race had dropped out before Crowhurst vanished-all of them because of the same kind of mishaps and small illnesses that he himself suffered...
...American Ideals. Wayne may have seen himself as a patriot. But next to some of his red-white-and-blue-blooded colleagues he looked a little pink. "We had a split in the group," Chase later reported, "the once-a-Communist-always-a-Communist group and the group that thought it was ridiculous to destroy some of those who, say, joined the party in the '30s in Nazi Germany. Duke and I were in the latter group." A risky place to be; when Wayne praised Larry Parks for admitting his Old Left indiscretions, Hedda Hopper bawled out the Duke publicly...
...hillbilly version of Laugh-In-arrived at the train station to start taping in Nashville last May, the performers were paraded ceremoniously through town atop mule-drawn hay wagons. "We felt like such goddam fools riding down the main streets," recalls Co-Producer Frank Pep-piatt. "We thought there would be throngs to meet us, but we ended up waving to each other...