Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the U.S. would help South Viet Nam and that another war would eventually have to be fought. After the Geneva agreement, 90,000 Viet Minh guerrillas were moved to the North, but Le Duan ordered the other Communists of South Viet Nam to go underground and hide their arms. He told Ho that when war broke out again, there would be an armed Communist force intact in the South as well as the 90,000 available guerrillas in the North. Says Honey: "What Le Duan did was lay the foundations for the Viet Cong at the time...
...institution destroys a patient's self-respect and saps his desire to work out his problems and return to life in his community. Many patients deteriorate. Many never leave. It is a disgraceful sham to call these institutions hospitals. They are human garbage dumps for communities which choose to hide their undesirable and disturbed members from view rather than to help them...
...improvement. The resonance is dulled. We are given, for example, three pages about young Nick's nighttime fears, which Hemingway cut from the beginning of Indian Camp. There is a mawkish 63-page shard of an unfinishable novel, telling how the teen-aged Nick and his kid sister hide in the woods to escape a couple of improbably Snopesian game wardens. (In his Hemingway biography Carlos Baker very properly deals with the incident in a few paragraphs. Apparently Ernest had killed some game out of season, and, considering himself to be in hideous trouble, spent some time skulking through...
Where would you hide your head? "The Italian soldier shook my hand," from "Looking Back on the Spanish...
...that's what we're talking about," Jim Winston said Saturday. "That's really what the whole thing boils down to and they refuse to recognize that fact. And everything else that they say to disguise it can't hide that fact. There's nothing rational in the response that they gave. There's no rational basis on which to say that sending Steve Farber to Angola is going to change anything for anybody at any particular time...