Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cluster housing should not be the rule. It makes a rural slum, bringing the evils of noise and crowding. Man needs space, privacy, a territory. All that open space is no one's land, and so it goes to hell and is wasted. Meantime, back at the cluster, no one has anything worth a dime-no place for pets or horses or a garden, no fence, nothing but a fancy, outdoor Pruitt-Igoe...
...territory but to destroy the enemy forces. "A desert is like an ocean," an Egyptian officer told Wynn. "A navy doesn't try to occupy a big segment of the ocean; it tries to destroy the enemy fleet. The desert is a paradise for a tactical commander but hell for a logistics officer...
...call this 'the Yom Kippur war' or 'the war of the Day of Judgment.' I call it 'the meaningless war.' There's no point to it. We are fighting it because the Arabs started it. We are just pounding each other to hell, causing a lot of casualties, breaking each other's necks for no earthly reason. The Arabs are not going to get back their territory this way. We could achieve that result by talking. But here we are fighting to kill each other-and we are going to kill...
...have flown from New York to Israel on charters organized by Sherut La'am, a department of the World Zionist Organization. "We have literally thousands of calls," says Nahum Remen, who is handling volunteers in Boston. "Some of the older people who call give me hell when I tell them they can't go." Volunteers are carefully screened by psychologists and social workers to weed out drug users and cranks. "We want to make sure they are committed to the Jewish situation and social justice," says Naomi Seligman, a psychiatric social worker at Brooklyn Community Counseling Service...
...Jewish leader in Washington had no trouble whipping up enthusiasm; on the contrary, he found he had to calm people down. "We had a delicate time last week," he admits. "People were getting hysterical. They were saying: 'The Russians are sending the Arabs everything they need. What in hell is this goddam Government doing?' I told New York not to get excited. I told them not to harass the Government. The help was coming. I sensed...