Word: bushings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glaring dust and prickly sweat. The men of the Biafran 55th Battalion were a motley group, mostly barefoot, lacking uniforms, and so short of weapons that a single bolt-action rifle served two or even three men. They had taken up positions around Umuneke in the thick, bone-dry bush. A blocking party had infiltrated the rear of the village and set up the homemade electrically detonated mines the soldiers call Ojukwu's kettles. The strategy was simplicity itself: drive the Nigerians back onto the mines and detonate them...
Birds chattered and giggled overhead. A long-tailed black lizard bobbed its head in the heat. Then the first line of the 55th went in, and the lizard was suddenly gone. The bush erupted with sharp bursts of automatic fire. An incoming mortar round decapitated a palm tree and left three men writhing and mangled. The periodic silences between bursts were broken by frightened screaming birds. Wounded men straggled back. Their black faces shaded gray by shock, they handed weapons and ammunition to their replacements. There was the unmistakable whistle of a 105-mm. howitzer. "Don't worry," said...
...latest group has just returned, sunburned and weary, but enthusiastic about their accomplishments. Out in the bush, they applied their university skills to helping Indians and other backlanders who had never seen schools or doctors, much less census takers. The students told of treating one Indian who had amputated his own arm to avoid death by snake poison; others found a woman who had seen all of her 15 children die in infancy. In one remote village every inhabitant had leprosy...
...undersigned, are students in the Department of Comparative Literature who attended the meeting. Joan Tapper Wendy Bush Carmelita Boivin Sara Bershtel Peter Herman Charles Bernheimer Jane Goldsmith Yehudy Lindeman Rae Ann Nager Anthony Vincent Kenneth R. Androué Jeffrey Green Roger Horwitz Regina Kyle Susan Kirkpatrick Michael Ouellette Lynda Christian Marina Frederiksen Richard Blumenthal Laimdota Mazzarins Peter Grudin Peter Heinegg Jale Parla Ellen Cantarow
...mind, I think he may be groping toward the realization that has come to so many of us in the past few years: that the whole way of life in this country is fast becoming absurd and that until we face that fact we will be beating around the bush. It's only too bad--to the tune of a lot of lives lost and a lot of minds destroyed--that LBJ was trapped by his own awe of the past. Even in the handsome color photograph on the book's cover, he is looking backwards. He probably always will...