Word: ant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words of one medical school dean who remarked, "The unexciting person will definitely have a more difficult time getting admitted in the coming years." On the other hand, for those students at the other polar extreme, there is very little play in medical school. The moral, Neither an ant nor a grasshopper...
...been left standing by the road." Each morning, at a prison camp where Von Lehndorff worked, the dead -stripped naked by the living-were stacked outside the barracks. One man was brought into the camp hospital "so covered with lice that you could compare him only with an ant hill." But Von Lehndorffs diary is far from just a catalogue of horrors. He encountered kindness as well as cruelty, and was often treated more humanely by the Russians than by treacherous fellow Germans who tried to ingratiate themselves with their new masters by turning informer...
...wear the amulet into a bordello. And though Vientiane's whisky-tippling set often honors Buddha's fourth rule more in spirits than in spirit, at least their chauffeurs use only the softest tail feathers of a rooster to dust the Mercedes-so as to avoid crushing the least ant, who could well be somebody's mother...
...state legislature and the past four as secretary of state. > Republican John Chafee, 42, won in Rhode Island by a mere 398 votes in a 1962 race that was not officially decided for weeks. This year, in the generally Democratic state, Chafee was opposed by two-term Democratic Lieuten- ant Governor Edward P. Gallogly, 45. Chafee urged voters to split their ballots and in that effort received aid from an unusual source. The state election board, with two of its four-man membership appointed by Chafee, publicized its own instructions about how to split the Rhode Island ticket naming Johnson...
...fellow he was when he took over six months ago-seems like an ant struggling with a boulder. "All he needs," says an American adviser, "is some competent administration at lower levels"-and this is precisely what Khanh lacks. In a land where colonial France deliberately restricted the Vietnamese participation in government (the French even posted their own traffic cops in Saigon), Viet Nam's civil service is shot through with inefficiency, not to mention graft, favoritism, inexperience, sloth; many ranking military leaders act more like petty politicians than professional soldiers...