Word: ap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grave at Ap Dong Gi, more than 100 victims were found, all buried alive, all standing, with only the hands and arms of some extending vainly above the ground. ¶ As he clung to safety inside a pagoda, a Buddhist monk heard screams and pleas for mercy as shots rang out nightly during the first two weeks of February. Later, the bodies of 67 victims, including Nguyen Ngoc Ky, leader of the Viet Nam Nationalist Party, were found in 13 nearby graves...
...keeping with his character. The so-called change was all in the eye of the critical beholder. Because L.B.J. is inept at communicating, said Patterson, "many Americans did not believe that his silences masked rational pursuit of results, or that his conciliatory blurring of issues represented a healthier ap proach than sharpening them. So his enemies have brought down their man. They are going to miss...
...reasons behind the difference, Hinkle and his research team found a link with education and, more important, family background. The figures showed that Bell's college-educated employees had a disabling-coronary-disease rate 30% lower than the company's noncollege workers. Behind the statistic there ap peared to be a significant difference in family health and diet patterns that persisted throughout the employees' adult hood. Most of the college men came from smaller, healthier families. They were slimmer, taller, smoked and ate less. Their fathers lived longer. The differences may have spelled better care for themselves...
...appointment, Long said, while the truck driver insisted on a complete exchange of papers and calling a policeman. Half an hour later, they finally arrived at the embassy. It was 10:15. They were greeted by Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Second Secretary to the embassy. Bich informed them that the AP reporter had already left. (The reporter explained in an interview later that he had to get his car fixed, and decided at 10:10 not to wait any longer.) He then conducted them to the ambassador, Bui Diem...
...February 7 AP dispatch from Ben Tre, describing its 45-85% destruction, a U.S. major says "it became necessary to destroy the town to save it." This sums up our war-policy more succinctly than its most eloquent critics and indicates how far we have travelled in the realms of hypocritical self-justification. We are close to the famous words of the bishop at the siege of Beziers, who was asked how to distinguish loyal citizens from Albigensian heretics: "Kill them all, God will know his own." Torquemada, weeping for the souls of unbelievers he had saved by burning their...