Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street collapsed in smoke and flames, its floor strewn with still bodies and flopping forms of the wounded. Dozens of pedestrians in a nearby shopping district were flattened by the blast. Where the car had been, there was only a smoking pit, two feet deep. Three charred bodies lay near by, and bits of pulverized flesh littered the street...
Deputy Ambassador Johnson had been in his fifth-floor office. Immediately after the blast, he appeared at the shattered entryway, calmly directing first-aid operations and bringing the first order out of chaos. His face was cut and blood dripped on his shirt. A Navy enlisted man lay on a stretcher while a medic held his hand over a gaping wound in the sailor's throat. A man rushed down the street cradling the corpse of a little boy in his arms. Many of the wounded who could walk left bloody footprints on the pavement...
...John Kennedy referred to the U.N. as "the last best hope of mankind," he fell victim to one of the oldest, gravest dangers the U.N. faces: overoptimism. Exaggerated expectations can only lead to disappointment and cynicism. As Kennedy himself demonstrated in the Cuban missile crisis the following year, salvation lay not in the U.N.. but in a direct interplay of power and reason between the U.S. and Russia...
Batetela, the leaflets bore a message from Mama Onema, a witch doctor formerly with the Simbas but now working for Tshombe. Mama Onema warned that the Simbas' dawa (magic) was no longer effective and urged the rebels to lay down their arms, for "otherwise, you will be cursed...
Confections in Concrete. On March 26, 1915, when it officially became a city, Miami Beach was not much more than a spit of sand across Biscayne Bay from Miami. Beyond the sand lay mangrove swamps being reclaimed from the alligators by a few adventurers with a scattering of small houses and high hopes. Miami's present style is largely the doing of serendipitous Millionaire Carl Graham Fisher of Indianapolis, manufacturer of PrestOLite auto headlamps. One day in 1912, Fisher looked at the all but deserted beach and had a vision. He filled in swamps, paved roads, laid out golf...