Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still see Vietnam as the ultimate test of their doctrine. I have in mind those gifted but in my view, wrongheaded men who have given a new life to the missionary thrust in American foreign relations--who believe that this nation, in this era, has been granted a threefold endowment of sorts that can transform the world...
Shotgun Recommendation. Appointed last summer while the riot-caused ruins of Newark and Detroit still smoldered, the eleven-member* commission had a threefold mission: 1) to record what had actually happened, 2) to find out why it happened, and 3) to suggest a scheme for heading off further troubles. The first two tasks were performed with the help of 90 staff workers in a minimum of time and with a maximum of thoughtfulness and sensitivity. But for the third assignment, the commission, stunned by the gravity and magnitude of the problem, produced shotgun recommendations without regard for cost or national...
...President also asked for creation of a National Insurance Development Corporation that would end "redlining" practices, by which insurance companies refuse to insure homes and businesses in potential ghetto riot areas. As well, he requested $1 billion for model cities, a threefold increase over last year, and passage of the Administration's oft-requested fair-housing law. All told, the multifaceted program would cost taxpayers $2.4 billion for the first year...
...Dealer Lyndon Johnson, the signing of the social security bill last week offered a threefold blessing: a chance to memorialize F.D.R., an occasion to tell 24 million present beneficiaries that, beginning in March, they would get the biggest increases in payments enacted since social security began-and the knowledge that most voters would not feel the additional cost until after Election...
...swing through South VietNam, a tour of syntax soldiering that found Humphrey at his ebullient best. Traveling by armed Huey helicopter, C-118 transport, Jeep, limousine and shanks' mare, the Vice President-who bore the code name Northwest-coursed from the Delta to the Demilitarized Zone on a threefold mission...