Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convert it into something more appropriate to the neighborhood. He stocks his shelves with volumes of pornographic fantasies and the apparatus to make them real-everything from vibrators to leather harnesses. The place is renamed Sex Shop, with every letter over the door spelled out in light bulbs that burn brightly even at noon. Browsing, except by minors, is encouraged...
WHEN CHILE'S new rulers seized power last week, they set themselves huge tasks. There were books to burn, settlements to destroy, opponents to torture, people to kill. There were thousands of refugees from other countries to catch and send back. Factories and farms were in the hands of those who worked them, and the generals meant to give them back to the old managers and manor lords. The poor people of Chile had tasted self-government, in the places where they worked as well as the Senate House, and the generals meant to teach them that self-government...
March of the Pots. Allende's second mistake was to assume that the middle and upper classes would placidly accept his "Chilean road to socialism" so long as all things were done constitutionally. They never did. "If we have to burn half of Chile to save it from Communism, then we will do it," threatened Roberto Thieme, leader of an extremist right-wing organization called Fatherland and Liberty. More moderate opponents were less outraged but equally adamant against Allende's plans to broaden state controls. Opposition parties, controlling both houses of Congress, fought him all the time...
Navy psychologists also note that submariners tend to "burn out" during a four-year hitch-although they make only two cruises (each lasting two or three months at the longest) a year, only 20% sign up for more. The Navy experts have doubts that the submarine crews could endure missions of much longer than three months without suffering serious psychological difficulties...
...army acts. By week's end, Allende had alerted army troops in all of Chile's 25 provinces to be ready to move against the strikers. The truckers remained defiant. Said one owner of a fleet of three trucks: "If the army comes, we will burn our trucks and run. Then we will start a Maquis...