Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approaching faculty members to conduct the seminars, which will be structured under an umbrella called "Radical Critiques of the University." Tracy B. Strong, teaching fellow in Social Studies and Government, will lead a section on the University and Society...
Australia fears that its own position would be badly compromised if the U.S. were to fold the protective military umbrella it holds over Southeast Asia. Since World War II, it has based its defense on joint efforts with the U.S. and Britain to halt the spread of Communism on the Asian mainland...
...prospect that future Saigon governments will include at least some Communists. Hanoi will have to accept the reality that even a phased U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam will probably require at least three to five years. U.S. air power is likely to offer the South a protective umbrella for a much longer period...
...ruminating about one of the finer points of the game. "Legend placed the fountain of youth in Florida," he reported, "and coaches like Tony Cuccinello here, hitting his billionth fungo, suggest that the legend is true. With the fungo bat, an instrument as thin as a diplomat's umbrella, Cuccinello and other artists can place a ball just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated an art as needlepoint and gets about as much attention." Investigating other byways of sport, Broun reported on the Copacabana waiter who felt that...
...favor of anything that would reduce the polarized situation that we are now in, anything that will allow us an umbrella for graceful withdrawal," he continues. "The look of the situation is more important than the content. If the look is ungraceful or dishonorable we may face really severe recriminations at home, and that would be really tragic...