Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capital seemed resigned to impending defeat. "The old life has ended," cabled TIME Correspondent William McWhirter from Saigon. "Its assets, loyalties, ideology and leadership are all becoming empty. Even now, with North Vietnamese divisions only an hour's drive away, no spirit of support or sacrifice has been summoned from the capital itself. It has not offered blood, money or even passion. No one has bothered to rally the people; there is a lone loudspeaker in the main square, but its scratchy, martial music is largely ignored. A high school teacher explained: "We Vietnamese, we know the verdict...
...upshot of all this, them, was the Student Security Patrol, a group of 14 undergraduates, law and Divinity students earning over $3 an hour for working night shifts on foot and at desks...
...patrol blossomed from 14 to 110 employees, supervision became a problem. The patrol charged its clients $3.70 for each hour of its service, leaving little money to pay such overhead costs as uniforms, training. clerical work...and the salaries that allegedly were promised to Maier, Caruolo and their new aide, Varnavas A. Varnava...
That drop of rain never came, but Threadgold, mercifully called the game anyway an hour later. After seven and a half innings of little league, with Harvard ahead 18-9. "With nine outs to go." Threadgold said after the aborted contest, "we could have been there another two hours...
...started looking for her keys. It took half an hour to realize that they were back in the car. Now! Getting her back to the car was another matter. We decided that it was necessary to wear a disguise. She put on my coat and pants. Back to the Burger Queen...