Word: inge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, the perversion of our political life in the past was so profound that I personally am certain that our citizens are not yet mature. We Greeks have the weakness of act ing not only from logic but from emotion, and the politicians of the past must be cured of this weakness be fore they can help start a healthy process toward formation of political parties and the holding of elections. If we reach the point where fewer .politicians insult the revolution and where they accept their obligations as servants of the people, then perhaps we may have the opportunity...
People say they can jump without being afraid, which is quite true for them. If you were counting and think- ing the preplanned thoughts, you would probably be tensely exhilarted. But if you were aware of your environment, you would have to know that everything, including you, was unknown...
...irregulars were started by Hayden two weeks after Tet as an early-warning network of civilians who, in their spare time, would help government forces defend Phu Vinh. Hayden, who once spent a summer in the U.S. work ing as a forest ranger, got local mer chants to contribute fire-fighting equipment and taught his men how to use it as well as the Bren guns he scrounged. Early in May, he led his 500 irregulars, smartly uniformed in black shirt and trousers, with a yellow scarf at the neck, on a 2½-hour parade through Phu Vinh. That...
...answer. Dictatorships often force people to vote for handpicked candidates and then proudly proclaim that participation hit 95% or more. By contrast, the U.S. right to vote carries with it a right not to vote, to register a negative protest, and most Americans would balk at hav ing it any other way. Even so, they sometimes forget that people the world over have often died fighting for even the crudest kind of franchise. Well aware of that struggle, some democracies impose fines on nonvoters...
...There is a certain glamour to buy ing a city within a city," says Harry Brakmann Helmsley. Especially, he might have added, when the price is $90 million, just about the top tag ever placed on a single piece of property...