Word: carcasses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young GI's by Vietnam combat and their training at home. In this war atrocities are premeditated and recurring, not isolated aberrations. Marines receive a short lesson in cruelty during their pre-embarkation pep talk, when the company officer strangles a small rabbit, skins it, and throws its carcass at his men. "You can get anything you want out of that," said one former Marine...
...enacted countless times by posterity. This killing is viewed as almost a religious act, and Kahn has taken his cue from Brutus's words: "Let's be sacrificers, but not butchers...Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods. Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds...
...should I be mad? And you, YOU can sure as hell see ME. Why just step back into the woods with me about half a mile and my dog'll trot along to drag you out after I'm finished with you and your goddamn measly worm-eaten carcass...
Chiefs of competing aerospace firms are already eying Lockheed as a prospective carcass, deciding just which of its parts and programs would be attractive acquisitions for their own corporations. At least one competitor may have gone even further. According to Senator William Proxmire, McDonnell-Douglas has hinted that it might indemnify three airlines that have ordered Lockheed's TriStar against any down-payment losses-provided they switch their orders to the McDonnell-Douglas...
...Carswell and his inept PR men proffered the carcass, it was those who devoured and digested the bad news that turned his defeat from a must into a fact. Behind the scenes men and women like Mrs. Marian Edelman of the Washington Research Project and James Flug, Senator Kennedy's lawyer, and Morris Abram, Harvard '71, gathered information and shoved it down the Senate's throat. The press, most notably the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Evening Star and the Atlanta Constitution, kept the issue in the public...