Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themes, but his story is about Lucy, a Midwestern girl living in a small Midwestern town. Horrified by her drunken father, she rejects completely, literally and figuratively sending him to jail. And she adopts rigidly moral ideas about her own life. By being "good" she manages to destroy everything she touches and, eventually, to kill herself while pregnant with the child she conceived to force her husband into a sense of responsibility...
...provinces, the Viet Cong have been ordered to attack candidates, raid election stations, destroy ballot boxes and pressure peasants to boycott the polls. During last September's elections for the Constituent Assembly, the V.C. assassinated 37 candidates and cam paign workers. Since the presidential election is far more important, this time they are aiming higher...
...Plow with Sound. Nostalgists still mourn for the days when most farm chores were handled by horses instead of horsepower, by men instead of machines. As Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman recently noted, they fear that the trend toward automation "will excise the soul from farming, destroy its joy, dull its satisfactions and chill the ageless intimacy between man and his land." This view notwithstanding, most farmers welcome machine-age relief from what Dr. Joseph Ackerman, managing director of Chicago's Farm Foundation, calls "farming by hunch and the Farmer's Almanac...
...doomed by his lungs. He moved from London to the softer climate of Dieppe and finally to the French Riviera. His sister had become a Roman Catholic, and Beardsley, in terror of death, soon followed. In a last letter, written in "my death agony," he begged his publisher to destroy all his "obscene drawings," particularly his series on Lysistrata, but the letter was never mailed. In 1898 he died, aged...
Pearl Harbor was less than six months past when Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto set out to destroy what remained of American naval power in the Pacific. By invading Midway, a fueling station and airbase 1,136 miles west of Hawaii, Yamamoto hoped to draw the last U.S. carriers and cruisers out of Pearl and crush them with his superior firepower. What he did not know was that Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's Naval Intelligence experts had cracked the Japanese code and had pieced together the entire operation (including a diversionary thrust toward the Aleutians). When Yamamoto's striking...