Word: boiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebels had a cause: Khanh had ad-libbed his role as leader of a war-torn nation for too long. His only ideological offerings were weary anti-Communism and vague nationalism. Meanwhile, the war went poorly, and in defeat Buddhists and Catholics found their historical hatreds coming to a boil. When Khanh dismissed Roman Catholic Interior Minister Lam Van Phat, a dour, desiccated brigadier general who felt the Premier had given in too easily to Buddhist reform demands, the situation reached flash point...
...auto chassis. Old people sit on the sagging porch. The others are chopping cotton in the nearby fields, wearing broad hats to keep off the sun. Long rows of cotton and corn lurch unsteadily in the waves of heat. When a car passes the dust seems to boil up off the dirt road and settles everywhere...
...auto chassis. Old people sit on the sagging porch. The others are chopping cotton in the nearby fields, wearing broad hats to keep off the sun. Long rows of cotton and corn lurch unsteadily in the waves of heat. When a car passes the dust seems to boil up off the dirt road and settles everywhere...
...Morey McDaniel [Aug. 28] and his fight against telephone hucksters! Although we victims still possess the ultimate weapon-the option of hanging up the receiver-before we can exercise this option we will have already left a trail of wet footprints to the phone or helplessly watched the soup boil over. I'll take asterisks. MRS. ROY H. COFER Berkeley, Calif...
...pavilion called Sermons from Science, one of the minor discoveries of the fair, presents the Word only as a kind of commercial at the ends of its excellent and varied movies on scientific subjects, which contain, among other things, fascinating studies in time-lapse photography: cumulus clouds boil upward, taproots plunge down through the soil like fast-moving snakes...