Word: infantes
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...troops into the Bay of Pigs, but military advisors had misled him; and he sent more to Vietnam, but planned to recall them by 1965. Even more disturbing, however, are the intensely personal moments Manchester forces us to share, such as Kennedy's reaction to the death of his infant son Patrick. These seem like intrusions on sacred ground, and leave one with the embarrassment of an unwilling voyeur...
...council began both boycotts in 1977. The Coors boycott was instituted when employees at the company's Golden Colorado plant struck over working conditions and privacy. The Nestle's boycott began to protest the company's "aggressive marketing of infant formula in the third world." --The Daily Californian
...gunplay. Authorities say that in one notorious incident, Franklin Pedro da Silva was holding up a Sāo Paulo bank when he was distracted by a crying baby. "Shut it up or I'll kill it!" he reportedly shouted, then summarily executed the eight-month-old infant and its mother with a pistol...
...example. In perhaps the best part of the book, Eban shows how the East-West conflict grew out of U.S. misperceptions of Soviet intentions based on a misreading of history. Roosevelt, his aides and successors erred in thinking that the Soviets would share the U.S. enthusiasm for the infant U.N. and the idea of self-determination for nations. Any realistic examination of history would have led Americans to conclude that the Russians would resume their traditional security anxieties and territorial expansion. In Eban's view, the Cold War was initially a reaction to the dashing of U.S. hopes for world...
...their injuries. The young actress who was supposed to be suffering from radiation sickness smiled bravely at the student who comforted her, and he smiled bravely back. On a cot in Cambodia lay a young man whose arm had just been amputated, and next to him lay his infant daughter whose arm had also been amputated. Neither of them smiled. They both looked numb. The stump of the man's arm kept twitching uncontrollably. At the end of The Day After, a statement said that a real nuclear war would be much worse. Indeed it would. The documentary...