Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murder is horrifying, but the work of such as Charles Whitman or the Chicago nurse-killer produces an almost hysterical quality of shock and dread. Numbers of dead alone cannot entirely account for it. Nor can the unsettling plaint of Austin's police chief that "this kind of thing could have happened anywhere." What is ultimately so disturbing about the 23 lives so taken is that nearly all were snuffed out for no reason and at random. In almost every case, they were unnamed and unknown to their killers, the incidental and impersonal casualties of uncharted battlefields that exist only...
...Johnsons took other precautions against criticism. A special account was set up, for instance, so that bills for invitations, food, extra help and other items would clearly be paid from their own resources rather than public funds. When it developed that Priscilla Kidder of Boston, who designed the bridesmaids' and bridal gowns, has a nonunion workshop, the job of making the dresses was transferred to a plant in Lowell, Mass., so that the garments would carry union labels. When family friends in Milwaukee planned a dinner party, word got around that champagne would be served, although the legal drinking...
...lots of new faces. Day after day, the discussions dragged on as the Bung struggled to retain some vestige of his former power. If General Suharto wanted the premier ship of the new Cabinet, argued Su karno, he would have to resign as the army commander, and on no account was the foreign ministry to remain in the hands of Adam Malik, the ardent advocate of an end to Sukarno's beloved confrontation with Malaysia...
...trial, Gang Leader György Szabo kept his cool. "You have called the Communists 'dirty Reds,' " fretted the judge. "Yes," said Szabo, "with my compliments." Since the defendant had praised Western prosperity, the judge asked if he had taken Hungary's wartime suffering into account. Szabo replied: "West Germany also suffered." What did he mean by knocking Hungarian "freedom"? Snapped Szabo: "I want Hungary to have full freedom, as in Austria or Switzerland...
JUSTICE IN JERUSALEM, by Gideon Hausner. Prosecutor Hausner's taut account of the arrest and trial of Adolf Eichmann...