Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some recruits are volunteers, but many are kidnaped into service or forced to join for fear of reprisals against their families. Viet Cong "taxes" are extorted from the population, with the heaviest share falling on landlords and plantation owners, who often pay tribute to save their lands from devastation. Assassination is a favored Viet Cong tactic, directed mostly against government officials, schoolteachers, village chiefs and their wives and children. Businessmen and the rich are seized and held for ransom...
...Mexico believe that the Tularosa Basin is ideal for a major spaceport. In its northern sector is a vast, bare alkali flat with 100 sq. mi. of almost perfectly level surface, made chiefly of gypsum (natural plaster of Paris), which is firm enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin's rim are not frightened by the possibility...
...made apparent, as the hero successively changes his name, testifies in a trial as an eyewitness to events he never saw, and later, on seduction bent, "enters" a girl's life by pretending he knew her dead brother. In the telling, everything is hemstitched with the heaviest of literary embroidery. (A telephone booth is "a slim, body-width oratory . . . a temple of self-abuse, saving synagogue of the air.") Once in a while there are a few glints of true gold. ("What we do not do persists, classic and perfect, beneath what we do. The final admixture...
...heaviest fallout was emotional. Indignation, fear and an undercurrent of hysteria roiled the world from Milan, where pregnant peasant women were convinced they would bear monsters, to Kyoto, where Nobel Laureate Physicist Hideki Yukawa wailed that "humanity is now doomed with this cancer called the nuclear weapon...
...Heaviest Responsibility. At an age when most successful executives are hopefully eying a vice-presidency, personable Tom Jones has rocketed to the top of an industry that bears the heaviest responsibilities ever imposed upon any branch of private enterprise. A curious conglomeration of aircraft companies, automakers, electronics firms and appliance manufacturers, the industry that has come to be called "aerospace" has as its prime immediate assignment the development and production of the weapons upon which the U.S. rests its hopes of maintaining its power and freedom. Beyond these here-and-now military needs lies another historic assignment-the creation...