Word: generall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles separates Boston from Cambridge, Mass, (and Harvard College). It was soon apparent that in Greater Boston, passionate feeling about an English King who had his head chopped off in 1649, James Michael Curley and history in general flowed as deep and murky as the Charles itself. "Unfortunate," snapped Benjamin R. Sears Jr. of Boston, replying to O'Halloran. "King Charles, while perhaps not one of England's great rulers, was King during much of the time Boston was being colonized," Sears noted. "What better way to remember part of our heritage...
...Iran, our interest is to see its people independent, able to develop according to their own design, free from outside interference. In Southeast Asia, our interest is to promote peace and the withdrawal of outside forces, and not to become embroiled in conflict among Asian Communist nations. And, in general, our interest is to promote the health and the development of individual societies, not to a pattern cut exactly like ours in the U.S., but tailored rather to the hopes and the needs of the peoples involved...
John Kennedy used to read books about courage. What took more guts, he asked himself and a few around him: To stay out of a war on the mainland of Asia, as General Douglas Mac Arthur had told him to do in 1961, or to charge on in with the U.S. flag flying? He never had a chance to fully make up his mind about that...
Shawn smoked her last cigarette on the way home from school that day. But when a Houston reporter called HEW to ask about the trip to Washington, it turned out that there were problems. After consulting with the Surgeon General's office, HEW stipulated that Shawn would have to stop smoking for six months before she was really in the clear. And she would need written proof. And there were no Government funds to pay for her trip...
...Saturday, mortar shells descended near Lang Son, according to an Agence France-Presse correspondent on the scene. To the north, heavy artillery shells could be heard every ten to 30 seconds. "Chinese troops have launched a general attack, all the frontier posts are being shelled by heavy artillery," a Vietnamese provincial official announced. "Bloody fighting is taking place, human casualties are certainly heavy." Said a wounded 18-year-old Vietnamese soldier named Trien Van Mien, who staggered into town and fell in the road: "The Chinese are close by, they are everywhere...