Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adenauer's funeral, the President decided not to ignore the newly revived tempest over Viet Nam. Departing from the text of a speech to a group of physicists, he declared: "I want to negotiate a political settlement. But I can't just negotiate with myself. Maybe somewhere, somehow, some day, someone will sit down and want to talk instead of kill. If they do, I'll be the first one at the table...
...mention also the courts, the trial of [Underground Writers] Sinyavsky and Daniel, which produced a horrible impression on all the intellectuals in Russia and on me also, and I can say that I lost the hopes which I had before that we are going to become liberal somehow...
...Expo committee that four years ago began drawing up the original list of desired exhibits, the show represents "an ultimate test of the conviction that fine things will always go together." Collecting them became the responsibility of a 15-man international committee of museum officials from eleven countries, who somehow had to persuade governments, museum trustees and individuals to lend ancient, fragile, and often irreplaceable pieces...
Howard Cossel, who made a pile verbally sparring with Clay (and losing most of the time) told the champ he liked him better this past year or so because he wasn't so loud. Somehow it's wrong to be loud and write poetry and predict the knockout round and tell off sportswriters and beat Sonny Liston so quickly and beat Ernie Terrell so brutally and become a Black Muslim and apply for exemption from the U.S. Army because you're a Muslim minister and because you object to the war in Vietnam. But it's worse, far worse...
...administration's program of escalated bombing of North Vietnam, rather than force Hanoi to negotiate on terms we like, is more likely to bring China into the war. The escalation program seems highly unrealistic in its psychological assumptions. It is apparently based on the belief that our bombing can somehow break the will to resist of a nation with a thousand-year history of independence, which has grown up in the shadow of the Chinese revolution and is now backed by both China and Russia. We should avoid matching wills directly with Mao Tse-tung, who is if nothing else...