Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Undoubtedly the majority of Americans still support the President in his search for an honorable way out of the morass in Viet Nam. But they also unmistakably want an early end to the killing. Nixon's dilemma continues to be how to fulfill those two, thus far irreconcilable demands...
Listing the Vietnam war, the threat of nuclear war, and the growing power of the military in American life as causes, Waid said, "Our government has become preoccupied with death, with the business of killing and being killed."
RICHARD NIXON cannot be called a hawk on the Viet Nam war. He wants the U.S. out, and he would prefer to bargain toward the exit rather than fight his way there. He has begun to reduce the American force level in Viet Nam. In May the President put forward...
The place is Stockton, Calif., a city filled with a litter of lost people, most of whom pile on urine-smelling buses each morning and head for the onion, peach or walnut fields for a killing day on skinny wages. Gardner's three characters are grafted to this landscape...
The young Durrell saw death too. The crisp horror of a tarantula killing a newly hatched bird is as vivid in his prose as it must have been to the watching boy. "The spider drew the quivering baby to him and sank his long, curved mandibles into its back. The...