Word: waverings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the first impact of the mutiny of the generals in Algiers, even Charles de Gaulle's iron composure seemed momentarily to waver. But in four perilous days, the 70-year-old De Gaulle re-established his imposing authority. France was left badly shaken, but with a sense that long-lived rancors had been purged. Stubborn and proud, De Gaulle once again proved himself the greatest Frenchman of modern times...
...crucial. Between their fear of pro-Castro sentiment among their own masses and the distasteful memory of past U.S. "interventions" ranging from the Mexican War to the Marine operations in the Caribbean in the 1920s and 1930s, even some of the U.S.'s strongest Latin American allies would waver. Latin American governments therefore tend to wish Castro would go away or fall of his own weight, are not very eager to join in the job though opposed to him, and only hope that the U.S. acts in a way it does not ever have cause to regret...
Though the President advocated a reduction of Quemoy forces provided that the Communists pledged a ceasefire, he did not waver on the question of Communist expansion. "The basic issue, as we see it," he said in October, "is to avoid retreat in the face of force...