Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kerouac also appeared to have lacerated himself with honesty, as if his truth were a scourge that could bring him closer to the state of beatitude-the word from which he said the term "beat" had been derived. That view is confirmed by Mrs. Charters in her sympathetic and levelheaded biography...
...peace crawls closer on the wings of a snail, we can ask ourselves how we can stop being Germans and become Americans again. It won't be easy. This year's election campaign in the German Federal Republic is the first since World War Two in which a candidate for Chancellor appealed to national pride and honor. The candidate--Willy Brandt--felt he could make such an appeal only because he had fled the Nazi regime and worked on behalf of the anti-Nazi regime and worked on behalf of the anti-Nazi resistance. Only a handful of Americans have...
...WOMAN, My mane is Nang--, Xieng Khouang has been my families' home since the time of my ancestors... There was danger as the war came closer, like the sound of bombs or shells or the airplanes which constantly made a terrible noise in the sky and led me to be terribly, terribly afraid of dying. AT that time, our lives became like those of animals desperately trying to escape their hunters...
...still sprawls obscenely on either side of Highway 1, Viet Nam's major coastal artery. Thousands of U.S.-made shell casings are piled in dull gray heaps. Now and then a refugee village, with its ludicrously colored wooden packing-case houses, appears on the horizon. As one drives closer to Quang Tri city, however, nothing but the rusting carcasses of trucks, ambulances and tanks-both American and Russian-litter the landscape...
Halberstam said that he thought presidential advisor Henry Kissinger meant and believed his pre-election message that "peace is at hand," because at the time the U.S. was closer to Hanoi than to Saigon...