Word: badgers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HONEY BADGER by Robert Ruark. 569 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...bestsellers about Africa in transformation. The story of the hero's public life is superficial but exciting; the details of his private life are clinical and, with the hero-author parallel continually implied, embarrassing. As for the women in his life, Ruark compares them to the African honey badger, the meanest animal in the world: "It does not go for the jugular-it goes for the groin...
...Minh did not go all the way to Versailles to badger the Allies. He went as a calm young patriot who wanted to point out to the Big Four the importance of understanding what was going on in Indo-China. They wouldn't even see him. He turned the other way only because they pushed...
...student named Chou Enlai, wrote pamphlets for the Communist International denouncing the "ugly mug of capitalism," edited a strident, anticolonial weekly called Le Paria (The Untouchable), wrote a bitter, anti-French comedy called Le Dragon de Bambou. In 1918 he rented a suit and trotted out to Versailles to badger Woodrow Wilson for the "liberation" of "Viet Nam"-the ancient name for the region that all Frenchmen divided into partes tres: Tonkin China, Annam and Cochin China. His pleas were lost in the shuffle of more immediate history, and he never got to see Wilson. But the farsighted Bolsheviks...
Working with Researchers Berta Gold, Erika Kraemer and Priscilla Badger, and drawing on the detailed and perceptive reports from the field, Writers David Tinnin and Philip Osborne and Senior Editor George Daniels were able to fashion a comprehensive account of the events as they were happening, placing the present in the perspective of history...