Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early next day, deciding the natives had failed, Michael Rockefeller decided to swim for shore himself. Wassing argued that the tide was against him, that they were three miles from shore. But, said Wassing, "Rockefeller's restless nature made it impossible to endure our drifting around." Mike stripped to his shorts, tied a red jerrican and the out-board's gas tank together for a buoy, and set out. Eight hours later Wassing was spotted 22 miles at sea by a Dutch patrol boat...
...Tide. Walker's resignation was made in the form of an advance statement to the Stennis subcommittee. Walker said that he would not accept his retirement pay of some $1,000 a month: "To do so would be a compromise with my principles." Explaining his reasons for quitting the Army, Walker said: "My career has been destroyed. I must find other means of serving my country in the time of her great need. To do this, I must be free from the power of the little men who, in the name of my country, punish loyal service...
Kennedy now addresses his team: My fellow teammates, this is a time of crisis. The tide is running against freedom, but it has not run out. And run out it will not, so long as free men are willing to sacrifice their liberty to keep men free...
...Macleod's policy was built on bedrock Tory principles: duty and realism. With most young Britons, he believes Whitehall has a responsibility to bring the colonies to mature independence and membership in a multiracial Commonwealth. Pragmatically, he knows well that no force on earth can halt the tide of nationalism. But Macmillan realized that if Macleod had stayed on, his colonial policies would have brought down on him the Tory censure that kept his old patron. Rab Butler, from becoming Prime Minister: "He's too far left to be right...
...anguished cry, "But we just want to be left alone," which greeted evening programs in some halls last spring, has now risen against the Houses. Even granting that the painting of doors and cupolas was not a master stroke of artistic taste, there are more fundamental reasons for the tide of opposition...