Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atchison, assistant to Detroit's able black Representative John Conyers Jr., calls these bootstrap efforts "sort of a Reconstruction revisited." He adds: "After the violence of 1967, it became apparent to blacks that war and confrontation in the streets was not the answer. It's a no-win deal...
...result, fissures are likely to appear more frequently. The aim will remain the same?unifying Viet Nam under Hanoi's control?but the five contenders are likely to differ on the means. Pike believes, for example, that they disagree on the major policy issue confronting Hanoi?how best to win the war in the South. Giap, Dong and Le Duan support the current policy: intensive guerrilla activity interspersed with conventional, regular-force battles or "high points," all aimed at inflicting a decisive victory in the tradition of Dienbienphu. Truong Chinh, clearly influenced by the theories of Mao Tse-tung, favors...
...Demands That students have had legitimate grievances is now almost universally accepted, and so is the proposition that reforms in advance of crises is the best long-term answer to unrest. The ultra-radicals, of course, can almost never be appeased. But they are relatively impotent if they can win no significant following among the less explosive majority. The concessions being made are therefore aimed at the moderates...
...game they have ever played?to the league's new expansion team, the Montreal Expos, by the exasperating score of 11-10. By late May, they had lost five more games than they had won. Then, suddenly, they caught fire. They won eleven in a row, the longest winning streak in their history. They slumped briefly in midsummer, but they have since rallied to win twelve of 13 games. As the season turns the Labor Day corner and heads into the stretch, the Mets are serious contenders for the National League pennant. Last week they were only 2½ games behind...
...their debut in 1962 by losing a record 120 games?and learned to laugh about it. To today's brassy Wunderkinder, those days are ancient history. Says Manager Hodges, a 17-year veteran of the majors who is not given to superlatives: "These boys have had a taste of winning, and now they know how to win. They're thinking ballplayers. They bounce back as well as any club I've ever seen...