Word: ditched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moonlight gathered more as the journey continued toward its continuation. Echoes of Beuchner and Freud and Camus slapping out of the monologue. The girl tripped and fell in a ditch...
...East. But always the film turns back to the violence-on the road and off it-that everyone begins to take as a matter of course. The distracted hus band does not even bother to look around while his wife is being raped in a ditch. The scene presumably symbolizes the dehumanized indifference of modern society...
Colonel Steiner, 38, has been soldiering for most of his life. In the final days of World War II, he fought as a Hitler Youth in Germany's last-ditch defense against the advancing U.S. Army. After the German surrender, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. He spent seven years in Indo-China, an enfant terrible who was at least twice busted from sergeant to private. At Dienbienphu, he was wounded and lost the use of a lung. After five years of service in Algeria, a spell with the S.A.O. and a suspended sentence, he was living...
Died. Hans Christian Adamson, 78, author, aviator and, with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, survivor of a famed World War II ordeal at sea; of a coronary occlusion; in San Francisco. Off course and low on fuel, a Flying Fortress with Adamson, Rickenbacker and six others aboard was forced to ditch in heavy Pacific seas. The airmen drifted on rubber rafts for 23 days before being rescued-an experience that led Adamson to write a number of books on sea survival and a biography of the World War I flying ace whose courage he had observed at first hand...
...destiny and carve out their own mini-nation. The federal Nigerians believe in the vision of a united, pluralist Nigerian nation. The cruel dilemma has been eloquently summed up by Yoruba Playwright Wole Soyinka. "Every Ibo man, woman and child believes today that he is fighting a last-ditch battle for his home and his dignity," he says. "What that means in practical terms to the nation is that the federal government is faced with a choice of wiping out the entire Ibo race or administering a nation that has built into its flesh a core of implacable hate. There...