Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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South Viet Nam's 1967 constitution endows the office of Premier with wide responsibilities-and potential power-in the day-to-day administration of the country on behalf of the President. In the constant clash-and-compromise bargaining between South Viet Nam's two top men, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky persuaded President Nguyen Van Thieu to accept as the country's first Premier a Saigon lawyer and Ky confederate with no political experience, Nguyen Van Loc. Ever since Tet, Saigon has rumbled with rumors that Thieu was going to replace Loc, who had proved a less...
...Hanoi's representatives, Harriman will be dealing with minds far more involuted and methods far less direct than the Russians'. Since 1961, Harriman has been deeply involved in the conflict between Saigon's independence and Hanoi's drive for hegemony. He has been in almost constant motion in both the policymaking and negotiating phases, remaining unruffled even during the past month's dickerings. "I never pack my bags until we move," Harriman says of his many missions. Last week he once again began packing. "It is 20 years almost to the day," Harriman recalled, "that...
...today. I have never let down the crew before, I think. Let down seven guys. I am one eighth of the crew. I am one-fiftieth of this demonstration. And I am not even sure that this demonstration is right. But I multiplied these figures by an absolute importance constant. I hate to hamper the hobby of my friends (and maybe screw, probably screw my own future in it). I am sorry about that, but death is being done by this university and I would rather fight it now than row a boat...
...seldom any enemy to be seen-only small Communist guardposts on the opposite hills. The terrain is rough with stumps, harsh inclines and thick, scrubby bushes. Thousands of white herons, pheasant, deer and bobcats rustle through the undergrowth, sometimes tripping flares or detonating Claymore mines. North Korean loudspeakers blare constant propaganda. When American and North Korean patrols spot each other across the zone, they regularly shout obscenities back and forth in the other's tongue...
...catastrophes befall these people. Their trials are in what one character calls the "courts of kitchen drama," where sadness and hilarity contend in a constant, shaky equilibrium. The teenage scientist of In Time Which Made a Monkey of Us All prankishly pipes non-toxic gas into neighborhood apartments, only to kill off all the animals in his father's pet shop. Still, such trials can end with severe sentences. The deserted mother's vision of her husband's eventual return is affecting because it seems so hopeless. The teenager, unable to face the consequences of his experiment...