Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...condemning the action, however, one must recognize the legitimate frustration that caused it. To an endless war has recently been added the legalized persecution of Panther leaders. The Nixon Administration's acts of repression are reaching such depths that the Panthers feel compelled to threaten race war in the absence of effective succor from white radicals. One cannot be surprised that radicals are fighting the government with whatever tactics come to hand. After years of futile reliance on mass marches, militant street actions must look good...
...then Nixon will use other means. The weekend everyone left for Christmas vacation, a high Defense Department official announced that the President had ordered contingency plans drawn up for "returning the war to the North" if infiltration continued and if American casualties remained high. Izzy Stone has a seemingly endless amount of documentation showing that Nixon is planning to start bombing North Vietnam once again...
...probably ask where the money for such an undertaking would come from. But what do we need money for.? Marble pillars.? A boat-house? A spacious campus with a chapel? An electron accelerator? A computer for our political science mandarins? Secretaries to type endless manuscripts for non-teaching professors? Deleting these "extras, one could support a university solely on a tuition smaller than Harvard's or M.I.T.'s-and still give scholarships to needy students. Think about...
...sent more troops but for the fact that the Iraqi army has been preoccupied for nearly nine years with rebellious Kurd tribesmen. The Kurds, who occupy most of the northern quarter of Iraq with an army of 10,000 men, have been demanding autonomy. Last week, convinced that the endless war was futile, Lieut. General Ahmed Hassan Bakr, Iraq's President, granted the country's 1,500,000 Kurds most of what they wanted...
...spent most of my time in an endless search to find light and get away from light. If I could only be sure of that, that nothing happened. It would summon something, a continuity perhaps, a shout anyway; no, I don't have the energy to get carried away. I am being carried away. I need something steadier, an endless stare. The wall of rock is flat. Nog is closer, his eyes cruel and distant...