Word: befallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Astomes, those fabled inhabitants of the medieval bestiaries who, living entirely on air, possessed neither anus nor mouth. Indeed, Warhol appears to have no metabolic system at all, and though a number of interesting things (like getting shot in 1968 by one of his deranged hangers-on) have befallen him, he makes them sound uniformly tedious...
Ford nevertheless had other things to say about Indochina. He rightly deplored the "vast human tragedy that has befallen our friends in Viet Nam and Cambodia." He insisted that this was no time "to point the finger of blame." Rather, "history is testing us." America should "put an end to self-inflicted wounds" and "start afresh" in a new spirit of cooperation between the President and Congress...
...things Ford asked of Congress are diametrically opposite to what Vietnam needs, and his reasoning directly contradicted the American experience in Southeast Asia. The "vast human tragedy" that he said has "befallen Vietnam" is largely the result of twenty years of American aid that propped up unpopular governments, and of direct military intervention to keep them in power. The "enormous sacrifices" in American "blood, dedication and treasure" he spoke of are insignificant in comparison with the courage and suffering of the Vietnamese people and the National Liberation Front, who have continued to fight against enormous odds since long before...
...been unexceptional--that her political involvement is "the natural, logical way to defend our embattled humanity." The only extraordinary event during her lifetime-her rescue from persecution and death by millions throughout the world--had nothing to do with her as an individual, Davis says, and could easily have befallen another brother or sister...
...Evil. After a few weeks in Lubyanka, the seeds of doubt had been planted in the mind of the fervent young Marxist. But it was only after he was transferred from Lubyanka to another Moscow prison, Butyrki, that Solzhenitsyn began to perceive the scope of the evil that had befallen his country. In Butyrki, he met the first contingent of Russian soldiers and civilians who had been captured by the Germans during the war. These people were now being repatriated?straight into Stalin's prisons and camps. Nearly 2 million of the 5.7 million prisoners of war had died...