Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SILENCE ON MONTE SOLE, by Jack Olsen. The incident itself was only a footnote to the history of World War II's Italian campaign. Yet Author Olsen (The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story) performs a feat of literary journalism in this meticulously researched, excruciatingly detailed account of Nazi SS reprisal raids on Italian villages that resulted in the murder of 1,800 people, most of whom were women and children...
...expressing his ideas, and in pushing them into reality, Low has earned a reputation of being reserved and distant. He is not a humorous man, nor one given to poetic fantasies. Yet last week he was as thrilled as any of his five children by the feat of Apollo 8. "I looked at the moon after Apollo 8 went into orbit," he says. "It looked different...
...Whatever the cause, it has become increasingly evident-and never more so than last week-that Clifford has been a prime force in arresting the ever-growing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and turning the nation toward disengagement. TIME'S Hugh Sidey describes how Clifford managed that feat...
Laird still lives in his Marshfield, Wis., birthplace, and the rockbed Republican Seventh District there gave him 64% of the vote in November. In his first term in 1953, he managed the unheard of freshman feat of getting on the powerful Appropriations Committee. Once there, he was named to the subcommittee that doles money out to the military, which led to his Pentagon expertise and, inevitably, to his seat on the Nixon Cabinet...
That debacle only confirmed Arafat's conviction that the Arabs could never de feat the Israelis with conventional armies. Throughout the 1950s, he had organized "cells" among Palestinian students abroad and studied the techniques of Algerian guerrillas. At that time, Nasser had organized forerunners of today's fedayeen among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and used them to stir up the border, a role they took on with sufficient enthusiasm to help bring about Israel's decision to launch...