Word: wickers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times had its disagreements. The same day that an editorial lambasted the "Johnson Doctrine" (a term coined largely by the Times itself, with some help from other papers) for putting the U.S. in the "unenviable, self-righteous and self-defeating position of world policeman," Times Washington Bureau Chief Tom Wicker denied that there was any such thing as a Johnson Doctrine...
...Skyraiders cut the bridges at Thanhhoa, above Vinh and at Dong Phuong Thuong (see map), roving jets prowled highways and rail lines, shooting up trucks and destroying the North Vietnamese's scanty rolling stock. Though the Communists could still cross their unbridged rivers by arranging makeshift spans of wicker boats at night, they were being forced more and more to avoid the roads...
Wives & Desperation. Then shock troops dragged wicker baskets full of grenades and ammo through holes blown in the wire, knocked out a sandbagged bunker on Kannack's northeast corner with one shot from a 57-mm. recoilless rifle, then blasted through the camp's bloody southeast angle to carry a string of defensive bunkers. All told, Kannack's defenders lost 33 dead and 27 wounded-most of them in the first assault...
...Ferhat Abbas to Adolph Zukor), some of them set in type. Times Metropolitan Editor Abe Rosenthai, whose responsibilities include custody of the obituary files, assigns their preparation to appropriate members of the paper's editorial staff. When President Kennedy died in Dallas, White House Correspondent Tom Wicker had on his desk, undischarged, the duty of updating the Kennedy obituary. As a new Times hand in 1946, Rosenthal himself contributed an obituary on Actress Miriam Hopkins. "I'm glad to say we've never had to use it," says Rosenthal...
Sidey is not purposefully undertaking a re-evaluation of Kennedy. Some later essayists did, foremost among them Tom Wicker, whose "Kennedy Without Tears" first appeared in Esquire this summer and is now a book. Wicker attacks the basis of the Kennedy legend at some length, and tries to set up a different Kennedy: a man who was not forever moving forward, but a skeptic, full of humor at his own foibles and others...