Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then the President gave Westy the second oak leaf cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal-awarded after the Tet offensive. Resor declared that the U.S. effort in Viet Nam is on the "threshold of complete success." In response, Westy said his forces had "denied to the enemy a battlefield victory" and "arrested the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia." Then he saluted the Commander-in-Chief, and Lady Bird asked everybody into the Blue Room for coffee and cookies...
...judge saw it, the students ran into fatal trouble on the very "threshold" issue: he was not convinced that his court had jurisdiction, despite the students' claim that the university was an agent of the state. Frankel agreed that some Government money helped to support the university, but that "is not enough to make the recipient an instrumentality of government," he said. "Nothing supports the thesis that university 'education' as such is a 'state action...
Mark swims for three hours every day, will increase that to four hours a day when school lets out this summer. "I have," he says, "a high definition of hurt"-meaning threshold of pain-and his philosophy in practice is "Always go farther than you think you can." Spitz's dedication to swimming does not keep him from being a serious student: he gets Bs, has applied for entrance to Stanford, plans to study dentistry. "I wonder," he says, "how it will be when I'm Mark Spitz, just one of a million dentists, after all the travel...
...recent statement that a halt in U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam "will" result in peace talks. But nobody could determine for certain whether the Communists were interested in launching negotiations that could end the war or in scoring a propaganda coup. "We could be on the threshold of something big," said one U.S. official, "but as of now it looks more like a cheap political ploy to get the bombing turned off for nothing...
...minute mood piece written especially for him in 1963 by Benjamin Britten. Spiraling through a set of variations that end rather than begin with the theme (Come, Heavy Sleep, a 1597 air by Lutanist-Composer John Dowland), Bream's guitar muses, churns restlessly, declaims, then drifts over the threshold of silence, leaving the final notes hanging in the air like wisps of smoke...