Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forests, rice fields and marsh es that ring Saigon, they wait. No one in the city knows exactly when they will come again, but everyone expects them. Saigon is bracing for a new on slaught by Communist troops, fearing that this time it may be even more pro longed and vicious than either the Tet or early May offensives. High-level defectors have said that a major Communist drive is in the making, and last week's relative silence on the battleground around the capital ominously underscored the point. As always when girding for a big campaign, the Communists...
...money, but it is vaguely sinful to enjoy it and unforgivably sinful to do so in public." Of course, this feeling is less a matter of morality than envy. In this wonderfully egalitarian country, the have-nots naturally demand: "Why not me?" And in politics, the voters have come to accept rich candidates, if not actually to prefer them...
...letter to mention your own current marital status. If you haven't a wife at the moment, I advise you to acquire one without delay. Wives can be extremely important at tax time not, of course, for the piddling $600 exemptions they bring with them, but for their in-come-splitting potential. Philip M. Stern, a would-be tax reformer who is, I am afraid, trying to do away with this convenient practice, says that in 1964 the wife of a man with $1,000,000 in taxable income was worth $2,766,153.75 to him if his moneyman knew...
...mood of the delegates at Uppsala attested to the fact that their grand experiment in Christian action has come up against serious problems. Paradoxically, many are the result of the World Council's own visionary initiatives. A fissure has opened within the body between younger leaders, who want the Council to move more aggressively in social action, and more conservative elements. Notable on the conservative side are the Orthodox churches, most of which were admitted to the WCC at its last assembly, and whose 140 voting delegates at Uppsala (of a total of 750) represented the most powerful single...
...SURREALISM. This is usually mixed with metaphors come to life: the real dove that turns into a bottle of Dove liquid soap, the Ultra Brite girl who brands strangers with long-distance kisses. There is also an element of "I can do anything you can do" worse. Thus when Aerowax ricochets machine-gun bullets off its "jet-age plastic," another brand looses a stampede of elephants to trample over its "protective shield." The surrealistic approach often has a certain childish charm at first, but with repetition it quickly palls...