Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waning Influence. Khiem, who was involved in the overthrow of Diem and masterminded two subsequent coupplots, joins Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, previously the air-force chief, to form an all-military triumvirate. They are expected to take an uncompromising political line at home and at the Paris peace talks...
Only five days before the presidential election, she made her move. Apparently convinced that the Syndicate was plotting to dump her after the election and form a right-wing coalition, she repudiated Reddy's candidacy. Her personal choice, she indirectly advised her supporters, was Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 75, who had been acting President since Husain's death. It was an unprecedented breach of party discipline, and there was angry talk among Syndicate members that she ought to be suspended from the party...
...trick was to remove precisely the right weight of soil and water without undermining buildings alongside the right of way. To do so, Quintana first built sidewalls for a trench, then removed the muck between them through a complex electroosmosis process of his own devising. The roof to form a tunnel came last. By the time the whole subway is completed in November 1970, it should accommodate 3,600,000 passengers a day and provide some relief for residents who now get trapped in the city's Tokyo-like traffic snarls...
Sure, and when Moynahan ends a story, he ends it. But it's a pity he has to go through the formal motions of writing a novel at all. At its free-form best, Pairing Off is an Irish happening - as luckily disorganized as a good St. Patrick's Day parade...
There were other steady-eyed observers who also described correctly the buboes, or underarm swellings, that told of death in five or six days, and the congested lungs of the even deadlier pneumonic form of the plague that killed within two or three days. Gethin's lament is remarkable because it makes the pain and terror vivid 600 years later. The authors of these two books on the Black Death mention the consistently abstract, numb quality of most contemporary chronicles...