Word: ems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were halfway through when a voice cried, "Ready-get 'em." Four counter-pickets grabbed the demonstrators and Eddie Summers, a junior from Temple University, made off with a flag. While passers-by yelled, "Burn it, spit on it," Summers applied a borrowed cigarette lighter to the flag. It wouldn't burn. He tried to tear it. It wouldn't tear. He spat on it. Then police, who broke up the fight and then watched the attempted flag burning, moved in and took the banner away...
...century, Lewis B. Hershey has directed the largest and most unpopular employment bureau in the world. During World War II, he drafted more than 10.1 million men; when the war ended, "no one else wanted the job, so I stayed on." Hershey's philosophy is simple: "We count 'em, cart 'em and send 'em." He has spent most of his career supplying manpower to the military, but he thinks himself as much a politician as a soldier. And he has enormous faith in the wisdom of his "constituents" -- the 4,000 local draft boards that classify 1.4 million men accross...
Suddenly the Viet Cong ceased firing. In the abrupt hush, bugles sounded, and the Communists charged. It was their first mistake, for it gave the U.S. marksmen their first clear targets and they mowed down wave after wave of the attackers. "The right squad alone was knocking 'em down 30 at a time," recounted the company commander. Four hours later, the Americans, now grown to two badly mauled companies, set up a defensive perimeter atop a hill-enough to hold off the far bigger V.C. force until artillery and tactical-air support could move in. At last the Viet...
Then, with a sure sense of timing, Goldwater began to needle the guest of honor. "Bill," he said, "if you're going to lose 'em, lose 'em big. Running as a conservative in New York City, you're not a political candidate, you're a political kamikaze. You're a Goldwater who did it on purpose." Just how popular that sort of activity makes a man, Goldwater had little doubt. "I had an interesting dream last night. The scene was Johnson City, Texas, and Bill Buckley was moving into a brand-new house. Across...
...hardened pro-football fans seemed unaware of the red-skirted frivolity. Can you imagine telling Verlon Biggs to "hit 'em again, harder...