Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Better I had taken ROTC. At least I might have profited from the knowledge during my adult working life...
South Viet Nam's civilians have fared far better this year. Despite the occasional shelling of cities, the ordinary life in the country continues almost normally. Communications and roads are largely unimpaired, and the vital pacification effort-dealt a heavy blow in last year's assault-is unaffected in 36 of the country's 44 provinces. Saigon, which became an urban battlefield in 1968, has so far felt the offensive's blows only in the form of rocket salvos. There are no new curfew restrictions, no hoarding, no staggering price increases. Acts of terrorism, while still...
...matter what he does, Foreman already has established for himself a permanent place in the legal profession's hall of fame. "There is no better trial lawyer in the U.S. than me," he says unblushingly. And he may well be right. During a career covering more than 40 years, he has served as defense counsel in at least 1,500 capital cases in hometown Houston and other cities. By his own count, a mere 64 of his clients were sentenced to prison and only one was executed. That was a convicted killer named Steve Mitchell, who Foreman still insists...
...CENTRAL figure in the story, Emiliano Zapata, became a mythical being in his own lifetime. To the Lift in Mexico and around the world, Zapata is the purity of the Revolution, and the intransigent spirit of the People. His best-known statement of policy, "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees," was one of the slogans in the Mexico City student revolt only last summer. (Womack is not sure Zapata ever said it, and the students attributed the remark to Father Hidalgo, the fervent but inept tocsin-sounder of the Revolution...
...rock universe. So the rock writer is always under a heavy obligation to explain exactly why he himself likes or dislikes a particular album or group. And the only way he can do so is to invent a theoretical framework within whose terms all of rock music can be better understood. Unless he puts his discussion of value in terms which are supposed to be universally true the skeptics in the audience will not even pause to consider his opinions...