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Rusk is commonly labeled "colorless" and-notably by Schlesinger-"indecisive." Yet, as he points out, "the course of wisdom lies in reducing the impact which accidents of personality have upon the relations among nations." He deplores "making policy by phrase," usually writes statements and memos in tinder-dry language. Not that he is totally incapable of turning a wry phrase or cracking a joke. During the Cuban missile crisis, it was Rusk, after all, who commented: "We're standing eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked." Addressing 200 college-age members of the Senate Youth...
Considering the island's ugly history (see box), it is a wonder that the Dominican Republic's leftists did not make their move long before. The tinder for revolution has been building for generations, and in the unstable years after Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican military has been the strongest anti-Communist influence. Most often it was in the person of Wessin y Wessin...
...Communist stronghold 25 miles northeast of Saigon. Leaflets were dropped on the cave-infested region, warning all noncombatants to get out fast. More than 2,000 did. Then planes saturated the woods with chemical defoliants. After a few weeks of sunny, wind-scoured weather, the Boiloi Forest was tinder-dry. Last week U.S. bombers swept in with loads of Incendijel (an incendiary compound derived from napalm), while behind them flew C-123s dropping drums of fuel...
...phrase "violence flared," third place to "flatly denied." The rest of the runners-up: "racially troubled," "voters marched to the polls," "jampacked," "usually reliable sources," "backlash," "kickoff" (as applied to anything but a football game), "limped into port," "gutted by fire,-" "death and destruction," "riot-torn," "strife-torn," "tinder-dry woodlands," "in the wake of," "no immediate comment," "guarded optimism," "-wise" (as in percentage-wise...
...Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries, Your male and female tissue sweetly shaped Sublimed away, and furious blood escaped...