Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson's extraordinary honor roll, from the first American killed fighting Communism in Greece in 1949 to the first American to die in South Viet Nam in 1961, was a fitting reminder of the role in which the U.S., like it or not, has been cast since the end of World War II.*It was particularly apt at a time when the nation was involved in its biggest and most bitterly disputed venture since Korea. In South Viet Nam, that involvement led last week to outbursts of anti-Americanism as students put the U.S. consulate...
...conceded two long-standing demands: a measure of local rule for Kurds, and Kurdish-language instruction in their schools. But Aref had a demand of his own. He wanted Rebel Chieftain Mullah Mustafa Barzani to disband his 15,000-man army, called pesh mergas (meaning "those willing to die for the cause"). Skeptically, Barzani refused...
ITEM: The Dick Van Dyke Show got four Emmys. It has just gone off the air for good. Maybe the way to get more awards is to make sure that the program is going to die. Kill any two situation comedies favorably received by critics...
Thanks to swift helicopter evacuation, less than 1% of the U.S.'s wounded in Viet Nam die, as against 10% in the infancy of copter medical aid in Korea. Though copters do get shot down, they have shown surprisingly low vulnerability. Having lost only one per 16,824 sorties, the Army figures that their Viet Nam life expectancy is ten years, considerably more than that of civilian autos at home...
...suit with life-or-death urgency, disguising himself as the luckless lout who is supposed to perish by black magic after Lucrezia has downed a potion brewed of mandragola, or mandrake root, and spent the night with him. Once conquered, Lucrezia cherishes the lad's do-or-die passion, ultimately scores her own sexual coup over the hypocrisy shown in the affair by her cuckolded husband, her amoral mother and a venal priest...