Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taylor had scarcely finished reading when the shelling began. At its sharpest, Oregon's Wayne Morse declared: "I happen to hold the point of view that it isn't going to be too long before the American people will repudiate our war in Southeast Asia...
...living room. But among the futurists, fortunately, are skeptics, and they are sure that remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop-because women like to get out of the house, like to handle the merchandise, like to be able to change their minds. Not everything that is possible will happen-unless people want it. One thing they almost certainly will want is electronic "information retrieval": the contents of libraries and other forms of information or education will be stored in a computer and will be instantly obtainable at home by dialing a code...
...familiar embroideries and tells the story of a wandering warrior-knight who rights for pay in the feudal feuds of llth century Europe, winds up under William the Conqueror in the thick of the slaughter at Hastings. Author Holland, who writes history as if her hero were watching it happen, en-capsules the medieval military mind: brash as plunder, elemental as blood...
...conceded that this economic program might lead to a loosening of political controls. "This is, I think, what the United States hopes will happen. It is their reason for supporting a dictator like Franco...
Oglesby said that American policy makers believe that Vietnam is the truce line between the United States and China and that eventually the Chinese "will join hands with American Bankers." But this will never happen, he continued, because Asia is revolutionary, while Europe was not. The Asian people are deeply committed to change because of "national aspiration combined with national resentment...