Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support of the U.S. position in Viet Nam, Wilson was booed by Britniks as he read the New Testament lesson in a Brighton church, but the most bitter criticism came from trade unionists within his party. They argued that the whole labor movement would die if unions no longer had the right to bargain for higher wages. Six hundred auto workers massed outside Wilson's hotel in Brighton. "Wilson, you traitor!" they shouted. Inside the Labor conference, Frank Cousins, the boss of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers, fumed defiance. "We shall...
...from the south. A contingent of South Vietnamese troops rushed in from the west. Closing the vise, the 1st Cavalry bored in from the north. With their back to the sea, where the rockets and guns of U.S. Navy vessels made escape impossible, the Reds could either fight and die, or surrender. A record number chose the lesser part of valor, producing the highest prisoner count of any operation in the war. As Operation Irving progressed, some 320 surrendering Viet Cong stumbled into the grasp of the Aircav alone...
...known as "a fun book." But Norman is a poet. He masquerades as the translator of a non-existent Egyptian-Greek poetess named Oum Salem. But his poetry, apparently, is known and not so horrendously bad as one might expect. And the poor man really doesn't deserve to die...
...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A severe moralist, Malamud pits a helpless man against guilty authority in this poignant account of a Jew condemned to die for a crime he did not commit...
Radio, which was supposed to die with the advent of TV, is not only alive but kicking-80% of it to the sounds of recorded music. Over the past decade, the number of radios in use in the U.S. has grown from 124 million to 242 million, TV sets from 37 million to 72 million. Radio sales during the same period have outstripped TV, increasing from 14 million sets annually to 23 million, as compared to TV's growth from 7,000,000 to 11 million...