Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who failed to follow that route often found themselves siding with a new force in Philippine politics: the Huks. Originally known as the Hukbong bayan laban sa Hapon (People's Army Against Japan), the Huks turned quickly to the Communist antidemocratic guerrilla warfare that their brothers in China and Indo-China were fostering. By the late 1940s, the Huk menace was massive: it claimed 14,000 fighting men under arms, and controlled by terror and taxation some 4,000,000 Filipino peasants, mainly in central Luzon. President Roxas, who died in office of a heart attack, was succeeded...
...poems of William Ferguson's don't do total justice to the man, but give an enticing taste of what will follow in the next issue, when BR will reprint a mass of his work. Ferguson combines a plastic imagination with an infallible ear; these poems show him condensed into a dense, luminous symbolic vocabulary -- a set of difficult hieroglyphs. After all, it takes more than devotion to know that "an ivory place, where needles thick as mirrors drank to excess" represents a hospital, or that "a foot with a thousand hands" is a pine-tree. His choice of quiet...
Cornell employs a defense with five men up front, two linebackers, two halfbacks, a safety, and a "rover" to follow the play. The Big Red have yielded five touchdowns and 659 yards through the air this season. That may prove the way for Harvard to travel today...
...like a stunned moth. Two larger Hueys, bristling with rockets and M-60 machine guns, came to the rescue almost at once. If the Viet Cong had lain low while the Hueys picked up the downed H13 crew, they might still have escaped the bother that was soon to follow. In stead the Reds shot down the Hueys too, and the gauntlet was thrown...
...Dewey disciple who founded the school and ran it until her retirement in 1956, knew all about the discovery method many years ago. She had all the school's heating pipes painted red and all the water-pipes blue. Then, when the children asked why, she let them follow the colors to the furnace and water main...