Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seriously, about their significance. The Rev. B. Davie Napier, dean of the chapel at Stanford University, says that "no entity hits as many sensitive people as these guys do." Napier, who has dwelt in past sermons on Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby, is convinced that Sgt. Pepper "lays bare the stark loneliness and terror of these lonely times," and he plans to focus on the album in an address to freshman students. Atlan ta Psychiatrist Tom Leland says that the Beatles "are speaking in an existential way about the meaninglessness of actuality." There is even a womb...
...gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
...band breaks into his theme song, Hawaiian Crooner Don Ho rides the spotlight in like a surfer on a 30-footer at Makaha. Except for a red lei ringing his powerful shoulders, he is either bare from the waist up or all in glistening white, from open velours shirt to tight jeans and stocking feet. In his left hand, he sometimes totes white ankle boots, in the right a snifter of Chivas Regal Scotch. With his tousled hair and sly brown eyes, he has the smirk of a beach bum who owns the passkey to every cabana on the island...
...Bare Hands. The resurgence of fighting in the mist-shrouded Highlands came after a company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade made contact with North Vietnamese regulars who had been waiting in sanctuaries across the border in Cambodia. When the Americans brushed into a small knot of the Communist forces, they pursued their quarry up a muddy hillside in the jungle near Dak To, seven miles from where the frontiers of Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam meet. The U.S. troops were led right into a torrent of machine-gun fire from 30 sandbagged bunkers atop the slope. By the time...
...border. The North Vietnamese concentrated on one platoon at a time and succeeded in cutting off each in succession. The American company commander fell in the first minutes of the battle. The fighting was at such close quarters that one U.S. squad leader strangled a Communist soldier with his bare hands and plunged his bowie knife into the chest of another. In all, 44 Americans were killed and 27 wounded; the North Vietnamese lost an estimated...