Word: ach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mengele is that once again he may be involved in the destruction of a people-though on a much smaller scale. Despite Paraguayan denials, TIME's sources believe that he serves as an adviser to the Paraguayan police and frequently travels to the remote Chaco region where the Aché Indians are being hunted down or reduced to slave labor through techniques that are chillingly reminiscent of those of the German work camps. A high Paraguayan police official boasted to a visiting investigator that his government uses "German methods" in dealing with the Indians...
Another symbol, the letter n, which is often borrowed from mathematical formulas by social scientists, is equally hallucinogenic. It stands for the word need. Thus Harvard Psychologist David McClelland, for one, writes n Ach when he wants only to convey a person's need to achieve great things, or n Aff to express the urge to affiliate with or belong to a group. Some of his colleagues, Andreski writes, must in turn be moved by n Bam, the need to bamboozle...
...JAMES L. ACH...
...Ach, man, can't you see what'II happen? It's afternoon. The kaffir's in the living room on his hands and knees sweeping the carpet. Someone's left the television on. He looks up at the screen. He sees a chorus line of white girls with scanty costumes. What does he do? Of course, he runs upstairs and rapes the madam...
These and other issues, however, are merely a preface to the big punch: attacks on crime, violence and permissiveness. Nixon saves the last third of ach speech for the slamming lines that get the biggest applause. He cites a specific atrocity or two by the radical left -a campus bombing, an assault on policemen-and then declares: "It is ime to draw the line." How? "I say it s time to give us men in the House nd the Senate who will vote for strong aws to deal with law-and-order, rather han against them...