Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-line Stalinist, urges "progressive journalists" to enhance "the revolutionary consciousness of the popular masses" so that "they will fight more tenaciously to crush U.S. imperialism...
...water buffalo-or at the peasants themselves. American affluence, symbolized by the PXs bulging with U.S. wares, stands in sharp contrast to the widespread poverty in Viet Nam. Rigid security precautions, however necessary, are also a source of resentment. Every day thousands of Vietnamese workers, men and women, line up outside U.S. bases like cattle moving into a chute to be frisked before they start the day's work...
...Phrase. To a great extent, Park has earned the support that he enjoys. Since 1961, the country has enjoyed an unprecedented economic boom, with per-capita income rising from $85.20 to $134 in 1968. In addition, Park's firm stance in the face of threats from the hard-line Communist regime north of the 38th parallel has won popularity for his regime in security-conscious South Korea. The opposition campaigned on a slogan of "Freedom v. Dictatorship." In the end, however, voters were moved by the government's catch phrase: "A vote against Park is a vote...
Somehow, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen had never seemed an appropriate choice to head the diocese of Rochester, N.Y., with its 362,000 souls. Indeed, it was no secret in the church that the man once believed in line to succeed the late Francis Cardinal Spellman was restless and unhappy in his out-of-the-way post. As one friend expressed it: "After being on the heights of Mount Tabor all his life, the bishop found his Calvary in Rochester." Even so, his resignation last week at age 74, after less than three years in his first important pastoral post, came...
...ground under my eyes and I could see my reflection in it." Then, after a sudden silence followed by applause, "I was told to straighten up. A few inches in front of my eyes dangled the body of my cat, Ming Ming, hanged from the roof by a washing line." When the crowd began chanting "Hang Grey," he was roughly ushered back inside the house to find posters stuck up everywhere, and all his belongings-even his sheets and toothbrush-smeared with black paint...