Word: yell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, though, Lyndon Johnson has learned that delicate diplomatic maneuverings can only be endangered by extravagant window dressing. He waged last winter's peace offensive, as Columnist Max Lerner noted, "as if he wanted his Texas yell to be heard over the rooftops of the world." Now, despite the spectacular advance billing for the Manila conference, the Administration's dealings with the Communist world and America's emerging allies in Asia are being conducted in sober, muted tones...
...find that the march was questioning not only the American position in the war, but the correctness of many of the country's most fundamental institutions and practices. For example, in Dorchester, as the marchers approached a church, a group of children who had been following them began to yell, --"Don't walk by a Catholic church... Don't walk by, you're not good enough." There seemed to be an ambivalent feeling: the spectators seem to assume that the marchers felt superior to everyone else; the natural response were constant taunts of "scum." Nor, in many cases...
...Throwing. Geyelin takes the position that Johnson, for all the seasoning he had had since 1932 in Washington, came to the presidency poorly prepared in the area of foreign policy. Shortly before, on an official jaunt through Southeast Asia, L.B.J. had shocked some Asians by letting out a rebel yell inside the Taj Mahal, and proclaiming that Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem was "the Winston Churchill of Asia." On that same trip, Johnson grasped the importance of U.S. support for Southeast Asia. While others in Washington were dallying, Johnson wrote a prophetic memo to President Kennedy, declaring that...
...Yell. The Americans were told they would be taken to another camp and eventually be sent to Cambodia for repatriation and release. Fearing that they were destined for North Viet Nam when they were moved out, they waited for a chance to escape. It came one suppertime as their three guards, carbines carelessly stacked against a tree, were digging into their rice bowls. Dodson yelled and leaped for the guns, came up with one while the startled Reds vanished into the bush. "I think the yell scared the V.C. more than the weapon," recalls an admiring Eckes...
...youths arrested for October's Weeks Bridge mugging draw four-to-six-year prison terms. Ralph Cahaly is robbed at gunpoint. Four men yell "You fugitive from a barber shop!" and beat up a Winthrop House sophomore. Twenty-five undergraduates march in Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade and only one is punched in the mouth...