Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was not the only time that President Kennedy stood firm before Khrushchev. In 1961, when the Communists sealed off the Eastern zone with the evil Wall in Berlin and seemed ready to block the Western allies from their access routes to West Berlin, Kennedy dispatched then-Vice President Johnson to the scene, sent 1,500 armored troops rolling down the autobahn and beefed up U.S. forces in Germany. Again Khrushchev backed down-and not for the last time...
...beefed up the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and put it under Johnson's chairmanship. Lyndon also became Kennedy's sometime emissary overseas. In 1961 he went to Southeast Asia, continued around the world. Later that year he was rushed to Berlin when The Wall went up. In 1962 he barnstormed through the Middle East, struck up his famous friendship with Bashir Ahmad, the camel driver. So far this year Johnson has been in Scandinavia and the Benelux countries...
...piece of furniture was a large single bed. In the Simons' bedroom, it reached from wall to wall. To get to the closet, they had to walk over the bed. It might have seemed more sensible to sleep in the living room, but there was a skylight there with a considerable hole in it, and, in winter, snow frequently came pouring through...
...Brick Wall. In Argentina's recent election campaign, Illia's People's Radicals called for annulment of the contracts, arguing that they were signed without congressional approval, and therefore illegal. Private oilmen contended that the contracts were signed in good faith, felt that they deserved a chance to renegotiate, or at least make a fair settlement...
...matters came to a head, Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman flew to Buenos Aires to see Illia, and later told U.S. oilmen: "I ran into the same thing you fellows did-a brick wall." At week's end Illia signed the blanket decrees. In them there was only a slight hint of renegotiation or indemnification, and in fact, it was asserted that the companies owed some $80 million in back taxes...