Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Constantine belongs, was started in 1863. During a period of near-anarchy in Athens, a Greek delegation went to Denmark to beg King Christian IX to allow his son, Prince William George, to become their king. George I lasted on the throne for 50 years?until an assassin's bullet ended his reign. His son, Constantine I, had equally bad luck, was twice deposed by the politicians. Then came George II ("the unsmiling King"), who lost the throne to a republican coup in 1924, remained in exile for eleven years before returning, and went into exile again shortly after...
...first period, Harvard opened up a 5-3 lead on some good heads-up play. Senior attackman Steve Neubert shoveled in a rebound amid a horde of white-shirted Bruins for the first goal, and seconds later. Tom Engel faked to his left and whipped a had 15-foot bullet past Brown's goalie for the second...
...Thanh Dong, a tiny cluster of huts in the Mekong Delta, where the teachers' voices must compete with the rumble of armored convoys on the road outside. Communist slogans, painted on the classroom walls by Viet Cong by night and whitewashed away by day, are faintly visible. Bullet holes stand out more starkly. On their way to school along a pot-holed road, children step carefully, watch for Viet Cong mines. One enemy mine recently killed two South Vietnamese soldiers near the school, and both sides ambush each other along the trails in the area. Sometimes the Viet Cong...
While this lapse--and others--results either from myopia, misinformation, or verbal hysteria, the handling of the actual events of the assassination and the assassin is more disturbing. The author's explanation is smug. The Warren Commission's most controversial theory--that one bullet hit both Kennedy and Gov. Connally--is not challenged. Despite Connally's recollection that the first shot did not hit him, Manchester writes "it had passed through...Connally's back, chest, right wrist, and left thigh, although the Governor, suffering a delayed reaction, was not yet aware of it." Certainly Connally may be wrong and Manchester...
More provoking is the author's refusal to consider the possibility that an assassin may have been firing at Kennedy from the grassy knoll in the front of the Presidential limousine. Manchester never even confronts the possibility that the bullet which killed the President may have come from the front of the car. He does, however, speak all too graphically of parts of Kennedy's scalp flying backward...