Word: unsought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Korean action meekly. Accordingly, he called up 14,787 Air Force and Navy Reservists, mobilized 372 inactive aircraft, hinted that some ground troops might follow, and thus released hundreds of operational war planes for service in Japan and South Korea. Ironically, the Korean crisis thus gave Johnson an unsought dividend by enabling him to activate reserve units-a move he had seriously contemplated to alleviate serious shortages in Viet Nam but had rejected as too risky politically...
...Angeles suburb of Covina, two burglars entered their house. With guns in one hand, hypodermic needles in the other, said Archerd, they injected both himself and Zella with a drug, then made off with $500 in cash, overlooking jewelry and other valuables. Archerd was unaffected by the unsought medication, but his wife went from convulsions into a coma and died. If they found anything odd in such a story, Covina police found no cause for arrest. Kindly Uncle William. The third unfortunate, in 1958, was Juanita Plum Archerd, wife No. 5. Two days after their marriage in Las Vegas, Juanita...
...loans are scarce, sell part of its portfolio to private lenders when funds are plentiful. So well does the agency perform this balance-wheel job that private mortgage men consider it indispensable. Precisely because of Fannie Mae's high standing in the financial community, Congress often gives it unsought extra duties handling programs of dubious soundness. This year Fannie Mae has become the conduit to unload assorted government-owned financial assets on private borrowers to further President Johnson's goal of holding down the apparent level of federal spending...
...David Elliott Bell is the very model of a New Frontiersman: he is youngish (43), brainy, liberal (in a pragmatic way), and he taught at Harvard. Above all, he is loyal to The Chief-to the point that he last week agreed to change jobs, take on the most unsought-after assignment that the Government has to offer. Starting sometime in late December or early January, Bell will become the new U.S. foreign aid chief, replacing Fowler Hamilton, whose resignation last month had been encouraged by President Kennedy...
...surprisingly to some, considered a danger of a different order: the possible domination of Government policy by "a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions" and an "immense" military establishment. "In the councils of Government," he said, "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." Nor, he added, should free scholarship become the handmaiden of the Federal Government. "The free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a Government contract becomes virtually...