Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hugh Sidey [Oct. 10] to assume that President Nixon was elected by his clever "use of cosmetics and electronics" is to assume that we "middle Americans" (whom you newsmen like to champion) are too dull of wit to comprehend the issues that confronted us in the recent election...
Deep Shock. Strictly speaking, it may be premature to use the word defeat. Still, no matter how the war ends, it is bound to entail some degree?perhaps a high degree?of American loss. What Brewster calls "this wound" will probably provoke deep shock among those many Americans who have nothing in their experience to prepare them for national failure. Instead of making pronouncements about not being the first U.S. President to lose a war, instead of faulting the opposition at home for his difficulties in Southeast Asia, Nixon would perform a better service by preparing the country...
...Asia, the Russians would undoubtedly use the U.S. pull-out to build up their own position against the Chinese. They would probably try to extend their influence through economic aid and diplomacy rather than by subsidizing further guerrilla wars. On the other hand, Moscow (or some factions in Moscow) might well be encouraged by American withdrawal to probe for other U.S. weaknesses, as it did when it installed the missiles in Cuba. American will could be quickly put to the test in the Middle East, among other trouble spots...
When Mitchell proposed modification of drug-abuse penalties last spring, conservatives in Congress reacted so negatively that the idea was dropped. Subsequently, the Government came out in support of the present tough penalties for marijuana use. Since then, pressure from Government medical experts as well as private physicians has induced Washington to reconsider once again...
Three alternative penalty schedules will be offered to Congress. Under all three, the maximum penalty for possession of drugs for one's own use would be limited to a year's imprisonment and a $5,000 fine for first offenders. It is now ten years and a $5,000 fine. Maximum penalties for sale of narcotics would vary for first offenders from twelve years in jail and a $25,000 fine to 20 years and $25,000. It is now 20 years and a $20,000 fine...