Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps everyone was too busy reaching for their checkbooks, or else yearning for the Good Old Days when Charles William Eliot held forth in the intellectual purity of Harvard Yard...
...nation's early apprehensions faded, a new idea set in: perhaps the P.O.W.s had been humanely treated after all. That illusion was shattered last week. With all the known surviving prisoners safely home from Viet Nam, the dam of restraints broke, and tales of mistreatment and torture poured forth. Navy Commander Richard Stratton, best known for his deep bows and seemingly drugged appearance in a 1967 news conference, summed up the reports of many prisoners when he said: "I have been tortured, I have been beaten, I have been placed in solitary confinement, I have been harassed, I have...
This is the new Siberia, an eastern El Dorado whose riches promise to make the Soviet Union of the 21st century the wealthiest nation on earth. Since the first oil well gushed forth in Tyumen province in 1960, Siberia has been found to contain the largest gas and oil reserves of any country in the world. Almost every day brings new discoveries. Geological maps are outdated as soon as they are printed. Scientists now believe that the entire region, equivalent in size to all of North America, is like a giant raft floating...
From the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam, three Somali envoys ventured forth to survey the battlefront. They found nothing whatever happening. Finally, with characteristic panache, General Amin himself toured the border and announced proudly that everything was "peaceful and calm" once more. Back in Dar, a Tanzanian spokesman summed up the wole affair as "utter nonsense." To which watchers of Amin might add "Amen...
Rationale set forth for the present military assistance and sales programs does not stand up under close scrutiny. The principal threat to internal security is from suppressed populist forces and U.S. military aid contributes to the suppression...