Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gosh! If the new feminists want to take on the world's work, let them go ahead. Next thing you know, they'll insist we men sleep in the mornings while they trudge off to support us. Then we'd have to care for an automated house, fuss with our kids, play poker afternoons and, I suppose, sympathize with them evenings while they attacked us sexually...
...this kid and killed him with a single shot." Roberts also watched while troops accosted a group of women, including a teen-age girl. The girl was about 13 and wearing black pajamas. "A G.I. grabbed the girl and with the help of others started stripping her," Roberts related. "Let's see what she's made of," a soldier said. "V.C. boom-boom," another said, telling the 13-year-old girl that she was a whore for the Viet Cong. "I'm horny," said a third. As they were stripping the girl, with bodies and burning huts all around them...
...point, a private stopped firing his M60 machine gun into a group of 20 people, refused to resume on Calley's orders?so Calley took the gun over and blasted away. Bernhardt said he had refused to take part, but feels guilty because "I just stood back and let it happen." One helicopter pilot, Warrant Officer Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr., 27, saw 15 children hiding in a bunker. He landed, ferried them to safety, returned to pick up a wounded boy. Amazingly, the Army ?apparently without determining who the children were hiding from?awarded Thompson the Distinguished Flying Cross...
This week, a high Administration source indicated that Harvard might reconsider its previous refusals to let the Patriots play in the Stadium, but added that the University first wanted some questions answered. The questions include...
...locked by the campus police. (In the meantime, someone had started a fire in the janitor's closer in the tower which brought seven fire trucks. They put it out with one fire extinguisher.) When the students started banging on his outside door, Hackerman decided to keep cool and let in a few. He set up a meeting between six students and Erwin. During the meeting, seven carloads of state troopers moved into the tower with riot equipment. They stayed until the next morning. The meeting ended with Erwin saying that he wasn't going to do anything and four...