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Refusing to Fade. Surging out of the forest, 1,000 Red troops overran Kienlong in the guerrilla-controlled Camau Peninsula area (see map), killing 60 of the 90 Civil Guard defenders, and publicly disemboweling the district chief, his wife, infant son and two other officials. When the government counterattacked with 2,000 air-supported troops, the guerrillas pulled out of the village. But instead of fading into the landscape, they were reinforced by a third 500-man battalion, making it the Viet Cong's first regimental-size operation. Then the Communists stood and fought half a dozen battles that...
...possess a gun: a scepter to define his will and a power to impose it upon the white man's world. The film describes how Duke fails to find the object of his obsession but discovers that a knife is also able to kill a man. At the fade, two white policemen begin to beat him brutally...
...times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day, which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die-they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye...
Naturally there are "mutual reachings" in such a seduction--this increases the teacher's liability. Often young people have not fully resolved their own sexuality. Latent homosexual inclinations frequently co-exist with normal desires. Left undisturbed, these usually fade away as the adolescent emerges into adulthood. Except in the relationship of the rapist and patient, it is not always best that submerged contents come to the surface. Under normal circumstances the analysand is not in danger of being led into buggery by his therapist. In denying seduction Goodman exploits these latent attractions. If there were no such skill...
...glow lasted more than an hour. Before it began to fade, Dr. Hall telephoned nearby Perkins Observatory of Ohio State University, which has a 69-in. reflecting telescope. Graduate Student Peter A. Boyce was at the telescope's controls. Dr. Hall told him that something was happening on the moon in the Aristarchus region, but did not give the precise spot. Boyce aimed his telescope at the moon and spotted the reddish area promptly...