Word: graveyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amongst the Tawies [Bevan's habitual pronunciation of Tories] there is peace and harmony-as there is in a graveyard...
Downtown Djakarta sprawls rank and sullen in the fetid subequatorial heat. Wilhelmina Park, once the pride of the city's stolid Dutch proconsuls, now lies half given back to the jungle, its cracked statuary staring vacantly above a graveyard of wrecked jeeps, trucks and armored vehicles. Swill and offal clog the canal that cuts through the main shopping center, and along its banks people gather in family clusters to bathe, brush their teeth, defecate or wash clothes. Hideously deformed beggars swarm the approaches to even the humblest...
Silver-haired General J. Lawton Collins, 58, knew that Indo-China was the graveyard of military reputations. In Saigon, at President Eisenhower's behest, to determine whether the demoralized free half of Viet Nam could be saved from the Communists, Collins resisted a newsman's commiserations. "I've already had one military career," he said unworriedly...
...down all others because they sought guarantees that he could not obtain or proposed reopening negotiations with the eight other London powers. Said Mendès: "I refuse to have my hands tied." Of the EDC crowd a Mendes supporter said: "These ghouls. They want to sneak into the graveyard...
...deck supports and ripping her hull. Captain José Villa ordered the ship beached on the desolate Outer Banks, 25 miles above Cape Hatteras. That night Captain Villa and his crew were taken off on a Coast Guard lifeline, and the Babun was abandoned 300 yards offshore in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic...