Word: set
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There goes our foreign policy," clucked one somber presidential adviser as Kissinger left a recent cocktail party with Barbara, her striking blonde hair set off by purple pajamas. Kissinger, 46, is one of the few eligible bachelors in the Administration, having divorced his wife of 15 years in 1964. But Barbara says, perhaps unconvincingly, "The reason Henry goes out with me is that he knows I'm one woman who is not husband hunting...
...said many times, some of the liberals in this country, he'd like to take them and change them for Russian Communists." Since Martha Mitchell's husband is the Attorney General of the U.S., the remark caused a certain furor. John Mitchell, at a press conference, set the record straight: "If you will transpose the word 'liberal' into 'violence-prone militant radicals,' I would be delighted to change them for some of the academically inclined Marxist Communists...
Shakespeare, a former television executive who has little tolerance for negative thinking, was distressed by the apparent defeatism of his seasoned staffers and he is trying to do something about it. He has set out to remold USIA as a hard-sell exponent of U.S. policies in the 104 lands where it operates. In the process, Shakespeare has involved the agency in more controversy than it has seen in years, and has given it its most partisan tone since cold-war days...
...reason for the uneven score may be what Israeli pilots proudly refer to as their "Soviet Squadron." The squadron includes three MIG-17s and one MIG-21. Two of the 17s were set down in Israel by blundering Syrian pilots. The third was shot down and repaired with parts from other downed MIG-17s. The faster MIG-21 was flown to Israel by an Iraqi pilot paid to defect by Israeli intelligence. Israeli pilots study and fly all four planes to learn their characteristics...
...form of address ("Jawohl, Oberstleutnant") is hardly casual, but it has caused grumbling among some traditionalists. The brass generally regard it as a good idea. Nor is it unprecedented. Hitler long ago banned Herr in his infamous SS corps, not out of a sense of egalitarianism but elitism-to set it apart from the rest of the German forces...