Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observes TIME White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey. "Persuasion, education, inspiration these form an area of power that may be in this age almost more important than the constitutional authority. Johnson is essentially a manager and a manipulator. He knows where all the levers are and he knows how to use them. But when he must, by the sheer force of his intellect and his personality, develop that broad base of support essential to moving the country, he often fails dismally...
City registered four murders in the 24-hour period. And in Miami, Police Chief Walter Headley declared: "This is war. We are going to use shotguns and dogs from...
...just south of the Demilitarized Zone. It was the lightweight, fast-firing M-16 rifle, which packs far more punch than the older and heavier weapons that the ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troopers had been carrying. The 1st Regiment soon had a chance to use them. During the Christmas truce, its scouts spotted a large North Vietnamese force moving into the Quang Tri coastal flats. As soon as the truce had ended, the ARVN moved to the attack, boxing the Communists into a four-sided trap with the help of a U.S. Marine blocking force...
Because the text is both offensive and frightening to many foreigners, West Germans have been asked by the Bonn government not to use the first stanza of the German national anthem. It begins with a rousing Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, and goes on to lay claim to vast tracts of land that either never were German or have been ceded to other countries after two lost wars.* Instead, Bonn has asked West Germans to sing the far less nationalistic third stanza, which calls simply for "unity, justice and freedom for the German Fatherland." Nowadays that request is being defiantly...
Next, as controlling director of the foundation, he appoints himself to do his regular work for the benefit of the foundation. For the work, the foundation pays him a relatively small salary, on which he pays income taxes. But the foundation also gives him fringe benefits, such as use of his car, a large life-insurance policy, perhaps even educational grants for his children...