Word: bien
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...around the time of the Supreme Court's decision outlawing school segregation, and around the time that Vice President Richard Nixon recommended the use of nuclear weapons to relieve the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu in what was then Indochina, Congress and President Eisenhower promulgated a bill to add the words under God to the Pledge of Allegiance. Oppose Godless Communism with Godful Americanism. By then I had converted to Catholicism and left public school for a Jesuit school where we began class not with the pledge but with a Hail Mary--a mood setter that, like the pledge...
...around the time of the Supreme Court's decision outlawing school segregation, and around the time that Vice President Richard Nixon recommended the use of nuclear weapons to relieve the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu in what was then Indochina, Congress and President Eisenhower promulgated a bill to add the words under God to the Pledge of Allegiance. Oppose Godless Communism with Godful Americanism. By then I had converted to Catholicism and left public school for a Jesuit school where we began class not with the pledge but with a Hail Mary - a mood setter that, like the pledge...
...More than 30 years later, Ngoc thinks of those shriveled trees as he watches his two-year-old daughter crying on a straw mat, waving her crippled limbs. Unable to sit up by herself, Trang is one of dozens of malformed babies born in Bien Hoa, where birth defects occur three to four times more often than in other parts of the country, according to a leading Vietnamese researcher. The prime suspect is Agent Orange, the chemical defoliant sprayed for nine years by U.S. warplanes over southern Vietnam. Nicknamed for the orange stripes on its storage barrels, Agent Orange contains...
...disturbing new number to be unveiled in Hanoi: Bien Hoa residents have up to 200 times the normal rate of dioxin in their blood, even among those born years after the spraying stopped. Dr. Arnold Schechter of the University of Texas estimates that southern Vietnam has up to 30 dioxin "hot spots" like Bien Hoa, the site of a major U.S. air base where some 7,000 gallons of Agent Orange may have been spread and spilled. Vietnamese officials say Schechter's study adds to the proof that the U.S. caused a massive environmental disaster and owes compensation to victims...
Sidibé’s portraits tend to be more playful, as shown by “Je voudrais bien voit ma jupe,” (“I would like you to see my skirt”), a portrait that shows a small girl wearing only a new white skirt. And in the 1968 “Amis des espagnoles”, “Friends of the Spanish,” four male teenagers don sombreros, over-sized sunglasses and smirks to create a photograph oozing with campy, self-conscious cool...