Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have had only one patient! According to the Vietnam News Agency (Hanoi), only one patient of the hospital suffered any injuries at all. If the hospital was hit, many more than one patient would have been hurt. It seems unlikely that the hospital was the intended target of the air attack since a major oil storage depot, which is a legitimate war-time target, was located nearby. The exaggerations about American "carpet bombing" persisted for several months after the December offensive. However, by May 1973, Drew Middleton of the New York Times concluded that the bombing had, in fact, been...
...bomb shelter is packed full now, several hundred people sitting thigh-to-thigh in a room designed to hold only a few dozen. The air is filled with a haze of tobacco from the grown-ups' chain-smoking. A grim Israeli soldier, armed with an automatic machine gun and a walkie-talkie, looks on as the children laugh merrily...
...mugging, raping, gratuitous street murder. Such a past never perhaps existed, but there was a time when New Yorkers could, on hot nights, sleep safely in Central Park; when citizens of all cities regarded it as a right to be able to walk the streets of an evening; when air travelers were not searched for weapons; when the safety of the great, and even the generality, did not shakily depend on bodyguards, armed janitors, closed-circuit television...
...month that holiday travel starts to soar, and this year vacationers will be offered a bagful of bargains in air fares−thanks in large part to an unlikely bureaucrat named Alfred Kahn. A lean, balding, hatchet-faced man who teeters back and forth in his high-backed leather chair, Kahn, 60, looks like a restless hawk. The image is apt. In less than a year as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, he has outdone any of his predecessors in shooing the airlines out of the cozy hen house of Government supervision that has protected and confined them...
Such an ironic twist breathes fresh air into a few of the stories, especially when Schorer uses his imagery not to undercut his heroes with satire but to heighten the intensity of their momentary fulfillment...