Word: point
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...PAVONE Stony Point...
...plans were bold, and bolder still was the willingness to discuss them with the election still to be won. But then, if John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been shy. retiring and modest, he never would have got to the point where they were worth discussing...
...Khrushchev also be comes convinced that a war of nerves can be too risky-or that the irresponsibles he has encouraged may get out of hand. Last week Khrushchev gave an interview to the left-wing Cuban newspaper Revolución, and just to make sure everyone got the point, had Tass circulate it six days later. Key passage: "The head of the Soviet Republic noted that he would like his statements regarding aid to Cuba in the case of armed aggression against that country really to be symbolic...
...article takes care to point out that, "Unlike many of his generation (Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon, for example)," Kennedy was "untouched by the Depression." His decision to enter politics, Time says, was little more than a caprice. He is quoted as saying, "I was at loose ends at the time. It seemed the logical thing to do." In the House of Representatives, the article continues, 'Much of his time was spent in pursuit of pretty girls and higher elective office...
Meyer has effectively changed the texture of Vermont political discussion; he has provided a friction point that the people can use to construct their own opinions. Because no one political attitude has proved infallible, he told a group of voters last weekend, "The important thing is not to be right, but to consider each course of action. Too often Americans see one side of a complex problem. We should try to present them with the other. And I happen to think that history will show that my attitude was the correct...