Word: killingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dossiers & Photographs. The city dwellers learned in the Communist offensive what South Viet Nam's peasants have long recognized: the Communists' ruthless application of terrorism in waging war. The attackers were ordered to seek out and kill the families of all South Vietnamese officers they could find, as well as police and government officials and their families. In Saigon, a band of Viet Cong seized several civilians, including a Korean newspaperman and the information officer of the Korean embassy, blindfolded them and summarily shot them in a Cholon street...
...Sanh grows steadily shabbier. More and more "hardbacks" (metal-roofed shacks) are tumbled by the incoming; day by day the protective sandbags and runway matting rise higher on bunkers. Even so, the bunkers cannot withstand direct hits. A rocket or mortar round will collapse a bunker and likely kill its occupants. The Seabees are finishing strong underground bunkers for the control-tower crew of Khe Sanh's airstrip and the evacuation hospital, rushing to complete the work before the threatened battle erupts. Meanwhile, the doctors must make do in cramped quarters: the operating room is an empty metal...
There is no doubt that chloramphenicol, better known by Parke, Davis & Co.'s trade name of Chloromycetin, is a potent and valuable antibiotic. That has been clear since 1947, when it was found to kill a wider variety of bacteria than penicillin or other early antibiotics. Better yet, it was one of the first drugs to show activity against some odd ball microbes called rickettsiae. But Chloromycetin soon showed another side of its character: a few patients developed a severe anemia after taking it, and by 1952 it was clear that some of these patients had died...
...clear to me," says Feintuch, "that Parker and his group fovored 'unilateral withdrawal' to kill the referendum. They limited the referendum to GSA members because they know graduate students as a whole would not support the referendum," he charges. "Now only the most conservative element among the graduate students, those who live in the campus dorms and pay $2.50 a year to attend the sherry parties, can vote to commit the Council...
Both Feintuch and Miss Theeman claim, in Feintuch's words, that "pressure from Dean Elder to kill the Bulletin after the Pusey editorial" was the decisive factor in securing passage of the motion curbing it's editor...