Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quitting Jerusalem, left ten minutes ago. Robert Rauschenberg lingers on, and though a lady art critic is locked in Johnson's subterranean painting gallery with a young artist who is slapping her around for undetermined reasons, the place is quiet. Above the Morrises, Judds and Oldenbergs, lights still burn in the new sculpture gallery, the completion of which was the occasion for the party. Through the glass wall of his house, a few hundred feet away, the host watches the Connecticut sky display its sense of occasion by turning a fulgid, Turneresque pink. Philip Johnson, architect and art collector...
...purge" him. Said Goodell: "This is campaign season, and the Vice President is on the campaign trail. But let's not try to imply that people who disagree with the Administration on this or that issue are somehow like the people who 'trash' campuses and burn banks and blow up mathematics centers. That sort of rhetoric is an unpleasant reminder of the chilling political climate of the early 1950s." That sort of talk by Goodell is also an unmistakable suggestion that Agnew is adopting the tactics of the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. In a press conference...
...atmosphere to damage or destroy incoming ICBMs. In the asphalt-cloud technique, the ABM disperses millions of particles in the path of enemy missiles. When the rockets plunge into the atmosphere, the highly combustible bits of asphalt that they have picked up ignite from frictional heat; the asphalt burns so rapidly and creates such great temperatures that the heat shields on the ICBMs are all but consumed. Then the missiles either burn up or are so deformed that they veer off course. U.S. officials say that no heat shield now in existence could survive the fiery ride through an asphalt...
...violence: "Too many Americans have begun to justify violence as a means of effecting change or safeguarding traditions. We believe it urgent that Americans of all convictions draw back from the brink . . . Students who bomb and burn are criminals. Police and National Guardsmen who needlessly shoot or assault students are criminals. All who applaud these criminal acts share in their evil. We must declare a national cease-fire...
Hussein's victory, however, was bought at an enormous cost. Two years ago, in the midst of a less sanguinary struggle with the fedayeen, the tough little monarch warned: "If I don't rule this country, then I shall burn it." He still rules, but much of his country is already in ruins; and the Palestinians, who account for approximately two-thirds of his 2,200,000 people, are not likely to forget how he cracked down on the guerrillas...