Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suppose Dow was singled out for this attention because the use of Napalm has a way of heightening the moral indignation of the imagination. One thinks "to burn alive" and shudders...
Judge Kapp would have none of it. "I believe you were an active participant to burn Newark," he told the unrepentant author, and then cited a poem published in last December's Evergreen Review in which Jones exhorted Negroes to "smash the window at night (these are magic actions) .. . Just take what you want. Take their lives if need be, but get what you want." "You are sick," lectured the judge. "Not as sick as you," shot back Jones before leaving for Trenton state prison...
...prose and his superb sense of timing turn Alice into a winsome memorable addition to the antiwar repertory that young singers across the land are compiling. "You want to know," he asks a sergeant at the induction center, "if I'm moral enough to join the Army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug...
...scrap paper, often upside down and crisscross ways unpunctuated, surrounded by drawings of lampposts and boiled eggs, in a very dirty mess; bit by bit I copy out the slowly developing poem into an exercise book; and, when it is completed, I type it out. The scrap sheets I burn." Fourteen years after Thomas' death, collectors still mourn those burned scraps. But four of his workbooks of self-history are available for study-at 26, Dylan sold them to the Lockwood Library of the State University of New York for $101. Others may yet turn up, but these...
...ashes, the bodies of babies laid in bamboo baskets. One man lost 13 members of his family. All told, 252 of the unarmed Montagnards had been murdered and another 100 kidnaped; 500 were missing, either dead or fled into the hills. Nearly 50 were wounded, 33 with third-degree burns over up to 20% of their bodies. Three U.S. Army doctors treating them in Song Be's dispensary were sickened and appalled by the sight. One remarked that any hospital in the U.S. would be paralyzed by that many burn cases being brought in at once. The doctors...