Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West's perennial and most exposed pressure point. Isolated 110 miles inside hostile East Germany, militarily indefensible and dependent for econom ic survival on easily sundered access routes, it is the place where the cold war began 21 years ago-and where the Communists refuse to let it die. Last week Berlin was once again the center of an incipient crisis. By a sudden decree, the East German regime of Stalinist Walter Ulbricht barred a large number of West German legislators and all military personnel from traveling by road or rail through East Germany on their...
Political Cosmonaut. European nationalism seemed to die in the agonies of the most recent war it helped cause. Yet it has become once again the dominant political emotion in Europe. No one has rekindled "la gloire" more assiduously than Charles de Gaulle. When Sampson interviewed Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Finance Minister mocked De Gaulle the diplomat as "a cross between Joan of Arc and a political cosmonaut." Yet, as Sampson notes, De Gaulle has "taken full advantage of the glamour of nationalism" as well as the allure of anti-Americanism. For his own lifetime, at least...
...rails, warming and warning our route to hell, as conductors swing easy and rough through the doors of their cars. Flashes of cold blue lightning slap at the buildings on either side of the tracks and the lights in the car are sick and jaundiced and keep trying to die...
...wanted a trip of his own. He knew he would be incomplete without one, that there would be a side of himself that would be always hidden. But was he willing to trip out in front of these sterile, lifeless, prostituted people? Did a man have to die, to become part of this human hell, in order to be reborn...
...COLLECTED statutes of the Common-wealth of Massachusetts are replete with quaint laws bearing titles little changed since the 19th century. Over the years, the state has allowed the most archaic of these to die in practice through lack of enforcement. One that has not died is the state's anti-birth control law, contained in the statutes under the heading "Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency, and Good Order...