Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deadline on U.S. bombing approached and insurgent forces moved closer to Phnom-Penh, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand visited the Cambodian capital and sent this report...
...bombing shakes the walls each day as the fighting comes closer. Even seasoned veterans glance nervously at each other on occasion, because it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between the thud of American bombs and the thump of incoming insurgent shells. Someone is always claiming that the airport is being shelled...
Other meditation techniques focus concentration upon a phrase such as a mantra, or upon a physical process like breathing, utilizing them as intermediaries in order to reach a state closer to God. The Divine Light technique claims to allow devotees to meditate directly upon God, without use of an intermediary...
There was occasion, too, to speculate about Nixon's deeper motives in refusing to release the tapes-for example, that he might be biding for time, on the theory that the closer the nation comes to the 1974 congressional elections, the less willing Congressmen will be to involve themselves in an impeachment process. Or that the more time that passes, the less palatable an interim Agnew presidency would be, and the more the American people would be likely to stick with a diminished Nixon for such of his term as might remain...
...losing his mind. When Cagney goes totally mad, blowing himself up with his famous line "Here I am, Ma, top of the world!", we have seen what pushed Cagney to his end. We are totally immersed in the tension Cagney builds up. All of the action has brought us closer to an understanding of his life, inspiring a fascination with the terror of his homicidal insanity...