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Each experience tried Kieu's emotions, but she always managed to escape unscathed. Before tragedy had befallen her family, she had had a vision of the unhappiness that awaited her. She did not question her fate; hers was a filial devotion which went beyond her concern for herself. After 15 years of such undeserved suffering, Kieu could reasonably have become embittered. On the contrary, she was no longer her somber self. Although past harm had left its mark on her, Kieu did not resist a tranquil life when, at last, it came within her reach...
McCurdy's main worry about the meet is the slew of injuries that has befallen the thinclads...
...thought. Pleading for the understanding of the American public, Nixon's National Security Advisor reflected on the lot of the Administration officials who planned the bugging of the Watergate. He confessed he found it difficult "to avoid a sense of the awfulness of events and the tragedy that has befallen people alleged to have done these things for whatever reasons...
...ways. In the past, it has grown largely by acquisition. Between 1964 and mid-1971, it absorbed no fewer than 98 companies. The antitrust settlement now effectively bars ITT from acquiring any U.S. company with annual sales of $100 million or more, and the bad publicity that has lately befallen ITT might impose further limits. ITT has made almost all its past acquisitions in exchange for stock. The recent controversies have driven down the price of its shares from an early 1972 high of $64.50 to $55.75 last week, making it less attractive to the owners of any company Geneen...
...confidence in the American way of life. I'm not sure what the American way of life was, but everyone?including a great many Jews ?thought it was best. Jews wanted to disappear." That attitude began to shift, first merely in reaction to the Nazi disaster that had befallen Germany's Jews, who had wanted to assimilate more fervently than anyone else; later, because the old confidence in the American dream was shaken, and a hunger for spiritual rearfirmation became evident among all groups, religious or otherwise. Now, says Soloveitchik, "America is reaching for values above historical change...