Word: birching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total number of newsmen who have died in the war to 17. As the fighting has come to Saigon and other cities, reporters have been in more danger than ever before. The previous week, TIME Correspondent John Cantwell, 30, lost his life along with three other newsmen: Michael Birch, 24, Australian Associated Press correspondent; Ronald Laramy, 31, a Reuters correspondent; and Bruce Pigott, 23, assistant bureau chief of Reuters in Saigon (TIME...
Home of John Birch Society...
...were soon briefed on the city's more relevant distinctions. Indianapolis is the site of the American Legion's National Headquarters; the home of the John Birch Society; and a few weeks earlier the Ku Klux Klan had received a permit for a full-dress parade down the main street. Not quite the peace candidate's territory...
Occasionally the far Right comments. One Birch Society member declared that fluoridation was "a prot to sterilize the population," and another explained that by accustoming the people to mass medication, the government could demand that everyone report for vaccinations on the eve of a Communist invasion and then inject deadly air bubbles into the veins of all American patriots...
...Miss Watson is by far the most respected faculty member. Shaw students, who are used to her birch-rod style of teaching, admire this woman who, they say, "makes us work...