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...group of women. The picture shows the 13-year-old girl, hiding behind her mother, trying to button the top of her pajamas. When they noticed Ron, they left off and turned away as if everything was normal. Then a soldier asked, 'Well, what'll we do with 'em?' 'Kill 'em,' another answered. I heard an M60 go off, a light machine gun, and when we turned all of them and the kids with them were dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...Shakespeare's assistant, R. Kenneth Towery, does not agree. The agency's mission, according to Towery, is to compete against the Communists. "I want to beat 'em down," he says, "and I don't care whether it takes the liberal or conservative viewpoint to do it. I'm a pragmatist." He adds: "Frankly, there are people in this agency who are soft on Communism. But we will not have any trouble as long as they do what is expected of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agencies: Thinking Positive at USIA | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...Remember when Truman partisans used to interrupt his speeches with shouts of "Give 'em hell, Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1969 | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...member of the now not-so-silent majority, am shouting "Sock it to 'em, Spiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1969 | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...Household word, household pet. Sic 'em, Spiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1969 | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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