Word: well
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PRESENT AT THE CREATION, by Dean Acheson. In these well-written memoirs, Harry Truman's Secretary of State recalls the formative years of the cold war with much wit, knowledge and insight...
Dropouts, he said, are characterized by a desire to take risks "in order to test their capacities as well as their courage . . . . Some take drugs and go on to escalate dosage and experiment with more dangerous substance . . . . Fast driving and irresponsible sexual behavior are other risk-taking activities engaged in by young people deprived of challenges...
...Washington cops were different. They were well trained and well disciplined. They were edgy too, but they were always able to differentiate between a kid who threw rocks and one who didn't no matter what the two of them looked like. In short, they were human beings...
...went to Washington, all of us. When you come right down to it, it is much more important to act than to achieve. An achievement is just an excuse to act; the act itself is what keeps you alive. We acted in Washington. Those who stayed home might as well be dead...
...cops were well trained; they were also lucky. The wind was blowing strong and in the right direction for effective use of the gas. The kids couldn't stay together. There were only thirteen arrests. The radicals who had hoped for an explosion and Attorney General Mitchell, who was also looking for confrontation, could only find a few broken store windows on Connecticut Avenue to point to with pride. The police made both the militants and Mitchell look stupid...