Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week, a U.S. Marine captain stared down the frozen clay road to Panmunjom. He could make out a distant blaze of standards, the glint of their points in the winter sun. "Here they come," the captain's squad muttered, as the tramp of marching feet grew loud. "All right," the captain said. "Everybody get back and keep this road clear. These guys have been waiting a long time for this...
...Distant Thunder. The White Death, as the valley folk call it, seemed to claim its victims by the wildest caprice. One woman, buried for ten hours in the ruins of her kitchen, passed the time by telling fairy tales to one of her daughters. Another daughter lay dead and buried in the snow just beneath them. A woman of 70 was swept into the icy River Lutz and rescued from the shore more than two days later. But near by, a peasant, wearily plodding across the fields, saw his house, his wife, his mother and his three children all swept...
...past year, said the President, brought "much for which we may be thankful. First of all, we are deeply grateful that our sons no longer die on the distant mountains of Korea . . . The nation has just completed the most prosperous year in its history. The damaging effect of inflation ... has been brought under control. The cost of our Government has been reduced, and its work proceeds with some 183,000 fewer employees; thus the discouraging trend of modern governments toward their own limitless expansion has been in our case reversed. The cost of armaments becomes less oppressive as we near...
Where is Clemenceau? Where are Gambetta, Jaures, Briand, Poincare? These great figures already seem to belong to a distant past...
...commercial symbols . . . and rites are rapidly replacing the church, the candles and the Psalms. These are the plush carpet, the exalted open casket, the heavily scented banks of funeral flowers, the dim, indirect light, distant recorded syrupy music replete with chimes and vox humana, all centered in the new dominant architecture of almost every community, the funeral home and chapel...