Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respectable people around the school bothered to call the police or interfere in any way during the ten minutes it took for the grisly scene to play itself out. Three of the attackers were in jail last week, a fourth was in a boys' camp, and the fifth was released to his family...
...next attack came a night later at Bu Dop, a U.S. Special Forces camp 21 miles north of Bo Due. Viet Cong intelligence was so precise that one of the first rockets dropped directly on top of an important U.S. bunker, killing the three American occupants. With suicidal intensity reminiscent of the Chinese in Korea, wave after wave of Viet Cong rolled over each other toward the camp. This time a hail of fire from a battalion of U.S. defenders and the miniguns of circling American gunships stopped the assault short of the fort's outer fences. Chalk...
...Wall is even less passable-even, in fact, less plausible-than the crude barrier that first shocked the world six years ago. Ulbricht's new design (see diagram) has been conceived with chilling efficiency; to test it, the East Germans erected a prototype at an army camp, rounded up some of the country's best athletes and let them try to cross the barriers without interference. None could makeit. Ulbricht has already completed nearly a third of what he calls his "modern border," hopes to rebuild the entire 99.5-mile ring around West Berlin...
...find his way to records, builds his six-minute Crescendo e Diminuendo by offering the conductor a series of short, disconnected blocks of string tones that he can put together in whatever order he wishes. In his ten-minute Phorion, Foss produces an authentic and horrifying piece of camp by turning a Bach prelude inside out and scattering its bones around the orchestra. Schuller's 17-minute Triplum is a brilliant synthesis between the fractionated twelve-tone language and jazz...
Indeed, modern industrial England would be enough to make William Morris turn his face to his own wallpaper. The wallpaper itself, alas, would now be classed as high camp...