Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting a war to keep the country one and united. I therefore cannot afford to be callous in the way I prosecute this war. I have got to think of the problems of reconstruction, reconciliation and winning the heart, if we are to have a happy country in the end. It would be quite an easy thing to say, "All right, we will call them enemies, and we will fight them as enemies." But then, honestly, it would remain with us for quite some time that they really are enemies...
...enemies of evil. Anybody who is the embodiment of evil, of course, will be an enemy. This man [Ojukwu], fighting total war with Nigeria, is a typical Hitler, and he will fight with everything he has in hand. He does not mind killing, eliminating, destroying anything to achieve his end...
...whap that could be heard as far back as the $10 seats (the ones at ringside went for $100), took the early advantage. In the third round Frazier caught Quarry with a sweeping left hook, opening a deep inch-long gash under the challenger's eye. By the end of the seventh round, Quarry's vision was impaired, and the ring doctor stopped the fight...
...only 4.5% expect to stay for more than five years. The Cape is a society of "ten-percenters"-men who move from one space contractor to another seeking a 10% pay increase. Their insecurities are heightened by shifts in space policy. With the Apollo program drawing to its end, the space center has announced that 5,000 employees will be dropped from its payroll by next summer...
...ultimate accolade to an artist's consistency-in any medium-is the suffix "esque" at the end of his name. To say a film is "Felliniesque," for example, is to suggest operatic and surrealistic fantasies, or the mixture of brio and disgust with which Fellini views society. "Godardesque" implies the nervous tics and mannerisms of an artist whose creative palsy can produce intriguing collages but never a totally complete vision. "Antonioniesque" suggests the world as a chessboard, full of malignant surfaces and doomed figures. "Pennesque," "Nicholsesque," "Kubrick-esque"-the labels refuse to stick. Yet the time...