Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage means that his story becomes slanted. Of course in the novel, plot and conflict couldn't be more clear. There is no doubt whose side is the right one, which set of people are more human. You must immediately dislike the British, admire the renegades from the compound who try to make friends with the natives, and see the Indians with understanding and affection...
...rumors swept New Jersey that the barrel was radioactive-and that the fishermen had been dangerously exposed. At that point, agents of the Atomic Energy Commission turned up to examine it and check back on detailed reports of dumpings. The findings: the barrel had been filled with a white compound substance; it was not radioactive and never had been. "We spent a lot of money doing it," said an AEC official last week. "But we run down every lead." The case of the fishermen's barrel is an item in a deepening AEC problem...
...that the money behind Tshombe's "kingdom" was not the only support provided by Union Minière. A U.N. report accused "hard core" whites of firing on the U.N. forces with mortars and machine guns from several places within Union Minière's big administrative compound during the recent Elisabethville fighting...
...were at a dangerous spot: halfway between U.N. headquarters and an important Katanga army building a few hundred yards away. For hours the missionaries ducked, as blast after blast struck their walls and plowed up the garden outside. Then they realized that badly aimed bazooka shells from the U.N. compound itself were doing the damage; during a lull in the firing, they hastily evacuated the buildings...
...Groaning Board. At the Cape, the Kennedys disappeared into the family compound, observed Thanksgiving in grey and clammy New England weather. Jacqueline Kennedy gathered Caroline into her lap, described how the Pilgrims had landed 28 miles away at Plymouth Rock.* The Kennedy men watched the Green Bay Packers-Detroit Lions professional football game on television; then, led by Bobby and Ted Kennedy while the President remained idle, they went outside for a brisk period of touch football. The President, his sisters, and brother Ted also drove into Hyannis to the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. memorial skating rink; all but Jack...