Word: gores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have found themselves confronted in the dark of night with the likes of Barbara Hepworth's looming Sea Form, which looks like a shield with holes in it, or Pablo Gargallo's St. John the Baptist, a strident bronze whose every jutting piece stands ready to gore the unwary lover...
Actually, the book is a Moravia-type shocker telling of impaled babies, little girls six and eight years old sold to brothels, and quarterings by the thousands. The purpose of all this gore is to prove that the suffering and horror wrought upon China by the West forced the Chinese to go Communist in self-defense. Author Suyin lets her morbid imagination gallop away when she writes of such events as the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 by Japan and the Western powers: "Soldiers of France and England and Germany went about with open trousers to rape women...
Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore: "We now find ourselves involved in a war that defies analysis in traditional military terms, in a war that makes little sense as it is being waged, in a war that we have scant hope of winning except at a cost which far outweighs the fruits of victory, in a war suitable to the enemy, in a place and under conditions that no military man in his right mind would choose, in a war which threatens to escalate into a major power confrontation and which could esca late into a nuclear holocaust. I am sure...
...President fire his Cabinet and appoint a new and more subservient one to prevent his being replaced? "What we would end up with," Bobby suggested, "would be the spectacle of having two Presidents, both claiming the right to exercise the powers and duties of the presidency." Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore had another nightmarish notion. What if an ambitious Vice President were to ally himself with the Cabinet or the "other body"-in other words, "shop around for support of his view that the President is not able to discharge the duties of his office"? Said Gore: "Where there...
...five who voted against the resolution were Texas Republican John Tower, Ohio Democrat Frank Lausche, Tennessee's Gore, Minnesota Democrats Walter Mondale and Eugene McCarthy...