Word: onus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...able to distinguish between the violence of the oppressed and the violence of the oppressor. And while he abhorred both, for him, as distinguished from the official preferences, the violence done in uniform against the insurgent wretched had no lesser immoral onus attached to it, but an infinitely greater...
...past two months-more than was dropped on Japan during the entire four years of World War II. In light of that fact, it may be difficult for Ho to turn down the chance for a breather. In any case, Johnson's unilateral move has now placed the onus unmistakably on Hanoi...
...something to offer the anti-Johnson effort at this stage. But by jumping into the race as a candidate, he would only point up his least attractive side and start off offending a substantial portion of the electorate. By throwing his support behind McCarthy, he can avoid the onus of opportunism, and add his proven abilities as an organizer in familiar surroundings to McCarthy's equally proven abilities as a campaigner in unfamiliar ones. Their potentials can be fused in a way they could not be with Kennedy the candidate...
Everything they have done, however, has been cautiously legal. With one basic tactic, Parsons and his partners have escaped the onus of becoming a bank holding company and evaded the restrictions of branch banking. They have simply set up a new and separate partnership to take over each bank. And Michigan has more than its share ready for takeover. In the Depression days of the early '30s many small Michigan banks were bought up by Reconstruction Finance Corporation examiners who had worked over their books and recognized their long-term potential. Those ex-examiners have now reached retirement...
...strikes at the MIG bases, however, illustrated Johnson's peculiar ability to add to the onus. Barely three days before the bases were bombed, Illinois' Republican Senator Charles H. Percy was assured by both the State and Defense Departments that they would not be touched. Moreover, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara had said only a few weeks earlier that "under present circumstances-and this belief can change as time goes by-we think the loss in U.S. lives will be less if we pursue our present target policy than they would, were we to attack those airfields." McNamara...