Word: intact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city that will not be resettled is Quang Tri, which was completely destroyed in the seesaw battles that followed the Easter offensive. It is a modern-day Dresden, with not a single building intact, nor a yelping dog, nor a piece of washing on the line. No one lives there, apart from some members of the International Commission of Control and Supervision and a small South Vietnamese army contingent...
Henry Kissinger touched on Watergate, telling them: "You are here at a time when home policy is more in the news than foreign policy. When you get home, tell your friends that everything they know of our purposes remains intact, that this [Sino-American détente] is a matter of the United States, not this or that transitory event...
lunuma's own father betrays the conspirators to the police, but because of the nationalistic sympathies the plot has aroused, the son is eventually released. Then, with his zealotry intact, lunuma proceeds alone to his assassination target as planned, and commits the suicide he had desired-in the book's last sentence, which is touched by Mi-shima's lucid, kinetic imagery. "The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids...
...residential living has almost single-handedly accelerated the inevitable questions about Harvard's relationship to Radcliffe because it has virtually eliminated Radcliffe's identity while leaving Harvard's intact. But while undergraduate women may feel inescapably a part of Harvard, the question in the minds of many Radcliffe administrators is whether Harvard has gone beyond the point of approving coeducation only in practice, not in theory...
...indeed postponed another year, if calendar-revision advocates do adopt Schram's attitude, and if the Class of 1977 doesn't take up where this year's freshmen leave off, the "early semester" plan may disappear as quickly as it became an issue. And if the traditional calendar remains intact, Harvard alumni returning to their alma mater in the future will be assured that at least one bridge still remains to the good old days...